Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 122
Very angry was Kilinoe, the dragon-woman.
What happens: be · To what, where: angry Kilinoe
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 angry | advmod |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kilinoe | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kilinoe | cop |
| 4 | Kilinoe | Kilinoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woman | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kilinoe | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kilinoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | angry Kilinoe | the dragon woman appos | 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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