Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 37
The priests and worshippers of Pele honestly believed that divine punishment would fall on her.
Who acts: priests, divine punishment · What happens: believe, fall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (priests, divine punishment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priests | det |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 worshippers | cc |
| 4 | worshippers | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 priests | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pele | case |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 priests | nmod |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 8 believed | advmod |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fall | mark |
| 10 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 punishment | amod |
| 11 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 believed | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fall | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the priests of Pele and worshippers | honestly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | would | divine punishment | on Pele | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location |
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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