Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 47
Then he goes back still farther to the Celtic Bel or Belen (the sun god), the Spartan Bela (the sun), and the Babylonian god Bel.
Who acts: pelah · What happens: go back
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pelah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 goes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 6 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 goes | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Bel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bel | det |
| 9 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bel | amod |
| 10 | Bel | Bel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 farther | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Belen | cc |
| 12 | Belen | Belen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bel | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 god | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | compound |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Belen | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 god | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bela | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bela | det |
| 20 | Spartan | Spartan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bela | compound |
| 21 | Bela | Bela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bel | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 sun | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Bela | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 sun | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 god | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 god | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 god | det |
| 29 | Babylonian | Babylonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 god | compound |
| 30 | god | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | conj |
| 31 | Bel | Bel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 god | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | pelah | then | the Babylonian god conj; far property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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