Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 9
His home was on the crest of an almost inaccessible precipice up which he would rush with incredible speed.
Who acts: home, crest · What happens: be, rush · To what, where: crest
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 (home, crest), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 home | nmod:poss |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crest | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crest | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 crest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crest | det |
| 6 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 precipice | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 precipice | det |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 inaccessible | advmod |
| 10 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 precipice | amod |
| 11 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crest | nmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 precipice | compound:prt |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rush | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rush | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rush | aux |
| 16 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 crest | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 speed | case |
| 18 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 speed | amod |
| 19 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rush | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dragon's home | the crest | of a inaccessible precipice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rush | would | the crest | with incredible speed; dragon nsubj | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with speed=Eventuality |
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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