Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 88
Other legends say he went to Kauai and there gathered a company of the most powerful priests to return to Hawaii for the destruction of Pele and her volcanic fires.
Who acts: Other legends, wali, Pele · What happens: say, go, gather, return, destroy, fire · To what, where: Kauai, company, Hawaii, Pele · 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 (Other legends, wali, Pele), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legends | amod |
| 2 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Kauai | case |
| 7 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gathered | cc |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gathered | advmod |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gathered | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 priests | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priests | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 powerful | advmod |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 priests | amod |
| 17 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 company | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gathered | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Hawaii | case |
| 21 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 destruction | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 destruction | det |
| 24 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Pele | case |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 destruction | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fires | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fires | nmod:poss |
| 29 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fires | amod |
| 30 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Pele | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Other legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past | wali | Kauai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | wali not said here | a company of the powerful priests | there | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | wali not said here | Hawaii | for the destruction of Pele and Pele's volcanic fires | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hawaii=Result | |||
| 5 | destroy | Pele and Pele's volcanic fires | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | fire | Pele | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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