Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 82
Kaha-wali crossed on his spear and pulled his friend over after him.
Who acts: Kaha wali · What happens: cross, pull over · To what, where: Kaha wali, spear, friend
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), 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 | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wali | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spear | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crossed | cc |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | participle | Kaha wali not said here | wali's spear | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull over | past | Kaha wali | wali's friend | after friend | over property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent friend=Result |
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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