Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 96

Their beauty was like that of Pele save for the paleness of their skins, which had come from their power to appear in different forms, according to their pleasure.

Who acts: beauty, skins, people · What happens: be, come, appear, accord, please · To what, where: power, different forms

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 (beauty, skins, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beauty	nmod:poss
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 save	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 save	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Pele	case
7	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 that	nmod
8	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 paleness	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 paleness	det
11	paleness	paleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 skins	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skins	nmod:poss
14	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 paleness	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 skins	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 power	nmod:poss
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 appear	mark
23	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 forms	case
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forms	amod
26	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 appear	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pleasure	punct
28	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 pleasure	case
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 according	fixed
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pleasure	nmod:poss
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skins	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	people's beauty		for the paleness of people's skins and people's pleasure; that of Pele nsubj; save property	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	people's skins and people's pleasure	people's power		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from power=Initial_Location
3	appear	to-infinitive	people's skins and people's pleasure not said here	different forms		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	please		people			nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 96