Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 42
Ellis, who wrote the story of the missionary tour of 1823, said that the race course was pointed out to him as Ka-holua-ana-o-Kaha-vari (The-sliding-place-of-Kaha-vari).
Who acts: Ellis · What happens: write, say, point out · To what, where: story, race course, Ellis · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ellis), 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 | Ellis | Ellis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ellis | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tour | det |
| 9 | missionary | missionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tour | amod |
| 10 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 1823 | case |
| 12 | 1823 | 1823 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 tour | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ellis | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 pointed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 course | det |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 course | compound |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pointed | aux:pass |
| 20 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pointed | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pointed | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Ka | case |
| 25 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pointed | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ka | punct |
| 27 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ka | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 holua | punct |
| 29 | ana | ana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vari | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 vari | punct |
| 31 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 35 vari | case |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 o | punct |
| 33 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 vari | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Kaha | punct |
| 35 | vari | vari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ka | list |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 place | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 place | det |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 The | punct |
| 39 | sliding | sliding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 place | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 sliding | punct |
| 41 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vari | appos |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 vari | punct |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 vari | case |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 of | punct |
| 45 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 vari | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 Kaha | punct |
| 47 | vari | vari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 place | conj |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 place | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Ellis | the story of the missionary tour of 1823 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ellis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point out | past · passive | the race course | Ellis | as Ka of Kaha vari ana | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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