Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 28
This pig was so important that its name has been made prominent in all the Kaha-wali legends.
Who acts: pig · What happens: be, make, name · To what, where: name
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 (pig), 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 pig | det |
| 2 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 important | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 important | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 important | advmod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 important | advcl |
| 12 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 legends | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 legends | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legends | det |
| 16 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 legends | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kaha | punct |
| 18 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legends | compound |
| 19 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prominent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this pig | important property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | pig's name | prominent property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | name | pig | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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