Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 2
This saying was applied to several legends, but it belonged especially to the story of her punishment of Kaha-wali.
Who acts: saying, woman · What happens: apply, belong, punish · To what, where: saying, Kaha wali
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saying, woman), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 applied | aux:pass |
| 4 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 legends | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legends | amod |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 applied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belonged | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 belonged | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 applied | conj |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 belonged | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belonged | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 punishment | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wali | case |
| 20 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wali | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kaha | punct |
| 22 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 punishment | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | past · passive | this saying | to several legends | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | saying | to the story of woman's punishment of Kaha wali; especially property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | punish | woman | Kaha wali | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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