Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 68
Her mother was a precipice (i.e., belonged to the earth).
Who acts: mother, precipice · What happens: be, belong · To what, where: precipice
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 (mother, precipice), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 precipice | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 precipice | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 precipice | det |
| 5 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 belonged | punct |
| 7 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 9 belonged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 i.e. | punct |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 precipice | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 belonged | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 precipice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Haumea's mother | a precipice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | a precipice not said here | to the earth; i.e. property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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