Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 84
When she grew into womanhood she was the bravest, the most powerful, except Pele, and the most gentle and lovable of all the sisters.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: womanhood
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 (Hiiaka), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 womanhood | case |
| 5 | womanhood | womanhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bravest | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bravest | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bravest | det |
| 9 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 grew | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 powerful | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powerful | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 powerful | advmod |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bravest | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pele | punct |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 Pele | case |
| 16 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 powerful | vocative |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gentle | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gentle | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gentle | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 gentle | advmod |
| 21 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lovable | cc |
| 23 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gentle | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sisters | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sisters | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sisters | det |
| 27 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lovable | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Hiiaka | into womanhood result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into womanhood=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hiiaka | brave property | tree rules |
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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