Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 29
She was one of the worshippers of Pele, the fire-goddess of the island Hawaii.
Who acts: prophetess · What happens: be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophetess), 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 | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 worshippers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 worshippers | det |
| 6 | worshippers | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Pele | case |
| 8 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 worshippers | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goddess | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goddess | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goddess | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fire | punct |
| 13 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Pele | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Hawaii | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hawaii | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hawaii | compound |
| 17 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 goddess | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | prophetess | one | of the worshippers of Pele | 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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