Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 19
In the course of their journey the missionaries met a priestess of Pele.
Who acts: missionaries, strawberries · What happens: meet, journey · To what, where: priestess, course
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 (missionaries, strawberries), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 missionaries | det |
| 8 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 priestess | det |
| 11 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Pele | case |
| 13 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 priestess | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the missionaries | a priestess of Pele | the course | of strawberries's journey | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priestess=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | journey | strawberries = strawberry | nom journey «act 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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