Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 31
She was, however, practically alone in her determination to strike a blow against the worship of Pele.
Who acts: Kapiolani, Pele · What happens: be, strike, determine, worship · To what, where: blow
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 (Kapiolani, Pele), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 determination | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 determination | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 determination | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 determination | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 determination | nmod:poss |
| 10 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 strike | mark |
| 12 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determination | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blow | det |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strike | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 worship | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 worship | det |
| 17 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blow | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pele | case |
| 19 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 worship | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Kapiolani | Kapiolani's determination nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | Kapiolani not said here | a blow | against the worship of Pele | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument against worship=Patient | |||
| 3 | determine | Kapiolani | nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | worship | Pele | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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