Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 43
In the form of a beautiful woman she suddenly appeared on the crest of one of the hills down which Papa-lau-ahi had been coasting.
Who acts: Pele, hills · What happens: appear, coast, form · To what, where: form, beautiful woman
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, hills), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 form | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 appeared | advmod |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 crest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crest | det |
| 13 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 crest | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hills | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hills | det |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 hills | compound:prt |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 coasting | nsubj |
| 21 | Papa | Papa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ahi | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Papa | punct |
| 23 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ahi | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 lau | punct |
| 25 | ahi | ahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coasting | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 coasting | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 coasting | aux |
| 28 | coasting | coast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hills | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Pele | the form of a beautiful woman | on the crest of one of the hills; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | |||
| 2 | coast | past · perfect · progressive | the hills | Papa lau ahi nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | a beautiful woman | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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