Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 94
Hale-mau-mau had his house of ferns for a long time upon a precipice, back of the present Volcano House.
Who acts: Hale mau mau · What happens: have · To what, where: house
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 (Hale mau mau), 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 | Hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mau | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hale | punct |
| 3 | mau | mau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mau | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mau | punct |
| 5 | mau | mau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ferns | case |
| 10 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 house | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 precipice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 precipice | det |
| 17 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 back | punct |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 precipice | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 House | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 House | det |
| 22 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 House | amod |
| 23 | Volcano | Volcano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 House | compound |
| 24 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 back | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hale mau mau | Kilauea's house of ferns | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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