Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 78
“Lei of Mauna Loa, beautiful to look upon.
What happens: look · To what, where: Lei
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lei | punct |
| 2 | Lei | lei | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mauna | case |
| 4 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lei | nmod |
| 5 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mauna | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lei | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 look | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lei | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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