Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 8
She was not a queen, nor was she even a princess, although by blood relationship she belonged to the royal family.
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: not be, be, belong · To what, where: queen, princess, blood relationship
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 | 5 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 queen | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 queen | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 princess | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 princess | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 princess | cop |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 princess | nsubj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 princess | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 relationship | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 17 relationship | mark |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 relationship | case |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relationship | compound |
| 17 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 princess | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 belonged | nsubj |
| 19 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 relationship | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 family | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 family | amod |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 belonged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Kapiolani | a queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kapiolani | a princess and blood relationship | blood relationship conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | belong | past | Kapiolani | blood relationship not said here | to the royal family | tree rules |
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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