Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 41

When her determination was seen to be immovable, some of the priests of Pele became bitterly angry and in their rage prophesied most awful results.

Who acts: determination, some, opposition, Priests · What happens: see, be, become, prophesy, determine, rage · To what, where: determination, awful results, rage

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 (determination, some, opposition, Priests), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 seen	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 determination	nmod:poss
3	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 immovable	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 immovable	cop
8	immovable	immovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seen	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 became	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 priests	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priests	det
13	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 some	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Pele	case
15	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 priests	nmod
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 immovable	parataxis
17	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	18 angry	advmod
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prophesied	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 rage	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rage	nmod:poss
22	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prophesied	obl
23	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	conj
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 awful	advmod
25	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 results	amod
26	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 prophesied	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		opposition's determination			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	opposition's determination not said here			immovable property	tree rules
3	become	past	some of the priests of Pele			angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	prophesy	past	some of the priests of Pele not said here	awful results	Priests's rage		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme
5	determine		opposition				nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	rage		Priests = priest				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 41