Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 25
Some authorities have placed the time of this visit to Hawaii as about the year 1350.
What happens: place · To what, where: authorities, Hawaii
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 authorities | det |
| 2 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 visit | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 visit | det |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 16 | 1350 | 1350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 year | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · perfect · passive | some authorities | Hawaii | time; year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=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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