Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 96
Ka-au-ea was the name given to a precipice in the walls of the crater.
Who acts: Ka au ea · What happens: be, give · To what, where: name, precipice, walls
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 au ea), 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 | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 au | punct |
| 5 | ea | ea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 name | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 precipice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 precipice | det |
| 12 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 given | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 crater | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crater | det |
| 18 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ka au ea | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the name not said here | a precipice | the walls of the crater | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to precipice=Recipient |
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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