Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 39
Nor was there any blemish in her beauty and symmetry from head to foot.
Who acts: Nor · What happens: be
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 (Nor), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 blemish | det |
| 5 | blemish | blemish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blemish | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 symmetry | cc |
| 10 | symmetry | symmetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beauty | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 symmetry | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Nor | there | any blemish in blemish's beauty and symmetry from head to foot nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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