Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 49
Here a priestess of Pele of the highest rank came to meet the party and turn them away from the dominions of the fire-goddess unless they would offer appropriate sacrifices.
Who acts: priestess, road · What happens: come, meet, turn away, offer · To what, where: party, road, dominions, appropriate sacrifices
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 (priestess, road), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 priestess | det |
| 3 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Pele | case |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 priestess | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rank | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 rank | amod |
| 9 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 priestess | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 party | det |
| 14 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turn | cc |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turn | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 turn | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 dominions | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dominions | det |
| 21 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turn | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 goddess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 goddess | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 goddess | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fire | punct |
| 26 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dominions | nmod |
| 27 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 30 offer | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 offer | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 offer | aux |
| 30 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turn | advcl |
| 31 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sacrifices | amod |
| 32 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 offer | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a priestess of Pele of the highest rank | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | a priestess of Pele of the highest rank not said here | the party | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn away | present | a priestess of Pele of the highest rank not said here | road | the dominions of the fire goddess | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from dominion=Source | ||
| 4 | offer a condition, not said to happen | would | road | appropriate sacrifices | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=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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