Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 117
“Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peelè!
Who acts: woman · What happens: handle, gather · To what, where: Woe, berries
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 (woman), 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 Woe | punct |
| 2 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Woe | nmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 handle | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 woman | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handle | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 handle | aux |
| 11 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Woe | acl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 gather | cc |
| 13 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 handle | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 berries | det |
| 15 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gather | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Peelè | case |
| 17 | Peelè | Peelè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 berries | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handle in a quote | should | a woman | Woe to this island not said here | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather in a quote | infinitive | a woman not said here | the berries of Peelè | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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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