Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 26
Kaha-wali filled his canoes with choice sleds, mats, cloaks, calabashes, spears, in fact, all the property needed for use during the visit he had in mind.
Who acts: Kaha wali, wali · What happens: fill, need, have · To what, where: canoes, fact, property, visit, mind
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 (Kaha wali, wali), 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 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wali | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kaha | punct |
| 3 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sleds | case |
| 8 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleds | compound |
| 9 | sleds | sled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mats | punct |
| 11 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sleds | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cloaks | punct |
| 13 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sleds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calabashes | punct |
| 15 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cloaks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spears | punct |
| 17 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cloaks | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fact | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fact | case |
| 20 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 property | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 property | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 property | det |
| 24 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fact | appos |
| 25 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 property | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 use | case |
| 27 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 needed | obl |
| 28 | during | during | ADP | _ | 30 visit | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 visit | det |
| 30 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 needed | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 visit | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Kaha wali | wali's canoes | fact | with choice sleds and mats and cloaks and calabashes and spears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient with sled=Instrument | ||
| 2 | need | participle | all property not said here | during the visit | for use | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | have | past | wali | the visit not said here | mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=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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