Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 22
Whenever Pele slept she lost the appearance which she usually assumed, of a beautiful and glorious young woman, surpassing all the other women in the islands.
Who acts: Pele, Puna, beautiful young woman · What happens: sleep, lose, assume, surpass · To what, where: appearance, other women
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 (Pele, Puna, beautiful young woman), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 slept | advmod |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 appearance | det |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 assumed | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assumed | nsubj |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 assumed | advmod |
| 11 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appearance | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 woman | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 glorious | cc |
| 17 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assumed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surpassing | punct |
| 21 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 woman | acl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 women | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 women | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 women | amod |
| 25 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 surpassing | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 islands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 islands | det |
| 28 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 women | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Pele | whenever property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Puna | the appearance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | assume | past | Puna | the appearance | of a beautiful young woman; usually property | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 4 | surpass | gerund | a beautiful young woman not said here | all other women | in the islands | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme in island=Attribute |
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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