Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 11
These sacrifices were supposed to appease the wrath of the goddess and assure the traveller safe passage through Pele’s dominions.
What happens: suppose, appease, assure · To what, where: sacrifices, wrath, traveller, dominions
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 sacrifices | det |
| 2 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 appease | mark |
| 6 | appease | appease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 supposed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrath | det |
| 8 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appease | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goddess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goddess | det |
| 11 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrath | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assure | cc |
| 13 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 appease | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 traveller | det |
| 15 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assure | obj |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 passage | amod |
| 17 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assure | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 dominions | case |
| 19 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Pele | case |
| 21 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assure | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | this sacrifices | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appease | to-infinitive | the wrath of the goddess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wrath=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | assure | infinitive | the traveller | Pele's dominions | safe passage obj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition traveller=Beneficiary passage=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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