Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 41
One day while racing Kaha-wali stuck his spear, which was peculiarly broad and long, into the ground at the end of the race course, then climbed the hill which bore the name Ka-hale-o-ka-mahina (The-house-of-the-moon).
Who acts: One day, spear, hill · What happens: race, stick, be, climb, bear · To what, where: Kaha wali, spear, ground, hill, 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 (One day, spear, hill), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 racing | mark |
| 4 | racing | race | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 5 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wali | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kaha | punct |
| 7 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racing | obj |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broad | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 broad | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broad | cop |
| 14 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 15 broad | advmod |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spear | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 long | cc |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 broad | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ground | punct |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ground | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 course | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 course | det |
| 27 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 course | compound |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 climbed | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 climbed | advmod |
| 31 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hill | det |
| 33 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 climbed | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 bore | nsubj |
| 35 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hill | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 name | det |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bore | obj |
| 38 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 name | appos |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Ka | punct |
| 40 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 mahina | amod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 mahina | punct |
| 42 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 46 mahina | case |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 o | punct |
| 44 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 mahina | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 ka | punct |
| 46 | mahina | mahina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 name | appos |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 house | punct |
| 48 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 house | det |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 The | punct |
| 50 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 mahina | appos |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 moon | punct |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 moon | case |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 of | punct |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 moon | det |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 the | punct |
| 56 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 house | conj |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 house | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | gerund | One day not said here | Kaha wali | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wali=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | One day | wali's spear | the ground at the end of the race course | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme into ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | wali's spear | broad, peculiarly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | wali's spear not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | climb | past | One day not said here | the hill | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme | |||
| 6 | bear | past | the hill | the name | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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