Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 7
She became a tall, portly woman, with keen black eyes and an engaging countenance, a queen in appearance when with other chiefs or chiefesses.
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: become · To what, where: tall portly woman
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), 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 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
| 6 | portly | portly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 woman | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 countenance | cc |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 countenance | det |
| 15 | engaging | engaging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countenance | amod |
| 16 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 queen | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 appearance | case |
| 21 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 queen | nmod |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 queen | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 chiefs | case |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chiefs | amod |
| 25 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 when | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 chiefesses | cc |
| 27 | chiefesses | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chiefs | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Kapiolani | a tall portly woman and keen black eyes and a engaging countenance and a queen in appearance | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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