Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 4
AUTHOR OF “LEGENDS OF OLD HONOLULU,” “LEGENDS OF GHOSTS AND GHOST-GODS,” “LIFE OF KAMEHAMEHA,” ETC.
To what, where: AUTHOR
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. 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 | AUTHOR | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 4 LEGENDS | case |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 LEGENDS | punct |
| 4 | LEGENDS | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 AUTHOR | nmod |
| 5 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 7 HONOLULU | case |
| 6 | OLD | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 HONOLULU | amod |
| 7 | HONOLULU | HONOLULU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 LEGENDS | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 HONOLULU | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 HONOLULU | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 LEGENDS | punct |
| 11 | LEGENDS | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 HONOLULU | appos |
| 12 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 13 GHOSTS | case |
| 13 | GHOSTS | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 LEGENDS | nmod |
| 14 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 GODS | cc |
| 15 | GHOST | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 GODS | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 GHOST | punct |
| 17 | GODS | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 LEGENDS | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 LEGENDS | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 LEGENDS | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 LIFE | punct |
| 21 | LIFE | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 LEGENDS | conj |
| 22 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 23 KAMEHAMEHA | case |
| 23 | KAMEHAMEHA | KAMEHAMEHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 LIFE | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 LEGENDS | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 LEGENDS | punct |
| 26 | ETC. | ETC. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 1 AUTHOR | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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