Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 32
Apparently the chiefs of this part of the island made Kaha-wali welcome, for he built houses for himself and his retainers and settled down as if he belonged to the country.
Who acts: chiefs, chief · What happens: make, build, settle down, belong · To what, where: Kaha wali welcome, houses
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 (chiefs, chief), 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 | Apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chiefs | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 welcome | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kaha | punct |
| 13 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 welcome | compound |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 built | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 built | nsubj |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 19 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 built | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 retainers | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 retainers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 himself | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 settled | cc |
| 26 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 settled | compound:prt |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 belonged | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 belonged | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 belonged | nsubj |
| 31 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 settled | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 country | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 country | det |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 belonged | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the chiefs of this part of the island | Kaha wali welcome | apparently property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset welcome=Product | |||
| 2 | build | past | chief | houses | for chief | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for himself=Asset | |||
| 3 | settle down | past | the chiefs of this part of the island not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | belong | past | chief | to the country | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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