Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 76

She answered, ‘If I am destroyed, then you may all believe in Pele, but if I am not, you must all turn to the true writings.’”

Who acts: Mr., you · What happens: answer, destroy, believe, turn · To what, where: I, Pele, true writings · 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 (Mr., you), 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 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 destroyed	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 destroyed	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 destroyed	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 destroyed	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 destroyed	aux:pass
8	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 answered	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 believe	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 believe	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	aux
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 believe	advmod
14	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 destroyed	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Pele	case
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 believe	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turn	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 turn	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 am	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 am	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 turn	advcl
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 am	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 am	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 turn	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 turn	aux
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 turn	advmod
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 writings	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 writings	det
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 writings	amod
31	writings	writing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 turn	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 turn	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Mr.					tree rules
2	destroy a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		I				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	believe	may	you		Pele	then	all property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	turn	must	you		the true writings		all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to writing=Trajectory

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 76