Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 42
The tender vines of the deep woods veiled this queen of the crater.
Who acts: tender vines · What happens: veil · To what, where: queen
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 (tender vines), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vines | det |
| 2 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vines | amod |
| 3 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 veiled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woods | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woods | amod |
| 7 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vines | nmod |
| 8 | veiled | veil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 veiled | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 crater | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crater | det |
| 13 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 queen | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 veiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | veil | past | the tender vines of the deep woods | this queen of the crater | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Destination |
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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