Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 30
Powerful were her prayers and incantations.
What happens: be · To what, where: Powerful prayers
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: 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 | Powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prayers | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayers | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 incantations | cc |
| 6 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prayers | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prayers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | prophetess's Powerful prayers and incantations | prophetess nmod:poss; incantations conj | 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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