Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 100
She passed on to Nuu-mea-lani, knowing that she could never again overcome the spirit of Pele, the goddess of fire.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: pass on, know, overcome · To what, where: Nuu mea lani, spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain), 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 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 passed | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lani | case |
| 5 | Nuu | Nuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lani | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nuu | punct |
| 7 | mea | mea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lani | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mea | punct |
| 9 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 passed | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 overcome | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 overcome | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 overcome | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 overcome | advmod |
| 17 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spirit | det |
| 19 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overcome | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Pele | case |
| 21 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spirit | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 goddess | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 goddess | det |
| 24 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Pele | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goddess | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | past | mountain | Nuu mea lani | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to lani=Destination | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | mountain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | overcome | could | mountain | the spirit of Pele | again; never | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spirit=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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