Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 191
Down below in the awful majesty of fire were the sisters.
What happens: be · To what, where: below sisters
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 below | advmod |
| 2 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 sisters | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 majesty | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 majesty | det |
| 5 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 majesty | amod |
| 6 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 below | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 majesty | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sisters | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sisters | det |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sisters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the below sisters | tree rules |
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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