Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 104
But it was Lord Tennyson who set down for posterity the heroic deed of the great queen in the following beautiful poem:
Who acts: length, Lord · What happens: be, set down, follow · To what, where: Lord, heroic deed
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, Lord), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 set | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Lord | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Lord | cop |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 5 | Tennyson | Tennyson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lord | flat |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 posterity | case |
| 10 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deed | det |
| 12 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deed | amod |
| 13 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 queen | amod |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deed | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 poem | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poem | det |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 poem | case |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 poem | amod |
| 22 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 queen | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | length | Lord | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set down | past | Lord | the heroic deed of the great queen in the beautiful poem | for posterity; who nsubj | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent deed=Patient for posterity=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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