Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 126
She did not know who Pele was, but supposed she was one of the women of high rank native to Kauai.
Who acts: wind · What happens: not know, suppose, be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (wind), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 supposed | aux |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 supposed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 supposed | cc |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 supposed | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 women | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 women | det |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 native | case |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 native | amod |
| 19 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 native | compound |
| 20 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 women | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Kauai | case |
| 22 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 native | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | wind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | who nsubj:pass; Pele nsubj:pass | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | wind | one | of the women of high rank native to Kauai | 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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