Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 95
The people greeted their coming with great applause, for they were very beautiful and were also possessed of supernatural power.
Who acts: people · What happens: greet, come, be, possess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 greeted | nsubj |
| 3 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 greeted | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 applause | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 applause | amod |
| 8 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 beautiful | case |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 greeted | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 possessed | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 possessed | aux:pass |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 possessed | advmod |
| 18 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beautiful | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 20 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 power | amod |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possessed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | people | with great applause | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | people | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | possess | past · passive | people not said here | of supernatural power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» |
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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