Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 129
O Kanaloa! the gods from above and from beneath, gods from most distant places!
To what, where: Kanaloa
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 Kanaloa | discourse |
| 2 | Kanaloa | Kanaloa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kanaloa | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Kanaloa | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 above | case |
| 7 | above | above | ADV | _ | 5 gods | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beneath | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 beneath | case |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 7 above | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gods | punct |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gods | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 places | amod |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gods | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kanaloa | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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