Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 93
They were the only ones who left their names to localities in the neighborhood of Kilauea.
Who acts: priests, only ones · What happens: be, leave, name · To what, where: only ones, names, neighborhood
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 (priests, only ones), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ones | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ones | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ones | acl:relcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 names | nmod:poss |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 localities | case |
| 11 | localities | locality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 neighborhood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighborhood | det |
| 14 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kilauea | case |
| 16 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 neighborhood | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | priests = priest | the only ones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the only ones | priests's names | the neighborhood of Kilauea | to localities | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme in neighborhood=Location | ||
| 3 | name | priests = priest | nom name «communication 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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