Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 81
Yet the expression that Haumea was a precipice might imply a misty feeling in that direction.
Who acts: Haumea, expression · What happens: be, imply · To what, where: precipice, misty feeling, direction
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 (Haumea, expression), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 imply | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 expression | det |
| 3 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imply | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 precipice | mark |
| 5 | Haumea | Haumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 precipice | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 precipice | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 precipice | det |
| 8 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expression | nmod |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imply | aux |
| 10 | imply | imply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feeling | det |
| 12 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | amod |
| 13 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imply | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 direction | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 direction | det |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feeling | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 imply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Haumea | a precipice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imply | might | the expression | a misty feeling | that direction | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Topic |
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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