Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 87
—The story often ends with the statement that Kaha-wali joined his father on the island Oahu and there remained.
Who acts: story, Kaha wali · What happens: end, join, remain · To what, where: father, island
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 (story, 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 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ends | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 ends | advmod |
| 5 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 statement | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 joined | mark |
| 10 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wali | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kaha | punct |
| 12 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ends | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obl |
| 19 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 island | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 remained | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 remained | advmod |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 joined | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the story | with the statement; often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with statement=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | join | past | Kaha wali | wali's father | the island | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | |||
| 3 | remain | participle | Kaha wali not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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