Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 92
Ka-au-ea (The fiery current) and Uwe-kahuna (priest weeping) and Hale-mau-mau (House of ferns) were kahunas, or priests of wonderful power.
Who acts: Ka · What happens: ea, be · To what, where: ea kahunas
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 (Ka), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ea | punct |
| 5 | ea | ea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kahunas | compound |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 current | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 current | det |
| 8 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 current | amod |
| 9 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 current | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kahuna | cc |
| 12 | Uwe | Uwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kahuna | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 kahuna | punct |
| 14 | kahuna | kahuna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weeping | compound |
| 17 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kahuna | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mau | cc |
| 20 | Hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mau | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hale | punct |
| 22 | mau | mau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mau | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mau | punct |
| 24 | mau | mau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kahuna | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 House | punct |
| 26 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mau | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ferns | case |
| 28 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 House | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 House | punct |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 kahunas | cop |
| 31 | kahunas | kahuna | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 priests | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 priests | cc |
| 34 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kahunas | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 power | case |
| 36 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 power | amod |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 priests | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 kahunas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ea | Ka | the fiery current appos; Uwe kahuna and Hale mau mau conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | ea kahunas | priests of wonderful power appos | tree rules |
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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