Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 57
She forbade her to approach any nearer to the volcano on pain of death at the hands of the furious goddess Pele.
Who acts: priestess · What happens: forbid, approach, pain · To what, where: Kapiolani, any, pain, death
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), 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 forbade | nsubj |
| 2 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forbade | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 approach | mark |
| 5 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forbade | xcomp |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 approach | obj |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 any | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 volcano | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 volcano | det |
| 10 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approach | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approach | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pain | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hands | det |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 approach | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 goddess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goddess | det |
| 20 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 goddess | amod |
| 21 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hands | nmod |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 goddess | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past | priestess | Kapiolani | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | to-infinitive | priestess not said here | any | pain of death | to the volcano; at the hands of the furious goddess | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||
| 3 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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