Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 22
He had heard of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island Hawaii who was a wonderful holua rider.
Who acts: wali, distant island · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: wonderful holua rider
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 (wali, distant island), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefess | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chiefess | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefess | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefess | amod |
| 8 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 island | amod |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chiefess | nmod |
| 13 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 island | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rider | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rider | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rider | det |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rider | amod |
| 18 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rider | compound |
| 19 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 island | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | wali | of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of chiefess=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the distant island | a wonderful holua rider | tree rules |
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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