Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 51
It seemed as if the queen of sunrise had summoned the beauty of the morning to rest upon her.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, summon, rest · 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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 summoned | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 summoned | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sunrise | case |
| 8 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 queen | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 summoned | aux |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beauty | det |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summoned | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beauty | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rest | mark |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 summoned | advcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rest | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | summon a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the queen of sunrise | the beauty of the morning obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | upon multitude | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |
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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