Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 97
Uwe-kahuna was a high hill on the northwestern side of the crater, overlooking the fire-pit and the region around Kilauea.
Who acts: Uwe kahuna · What happens: be, overlook · To what, where: high hill, northwestern side, fire pit
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 (Uwe kahuna), 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 | Uwe | Uwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kahuna | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Uwe | punct |
| 3 | kahuna | kahuna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hill | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hill | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hill | amod |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hill | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crater | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crater | det |
| 14 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overlooking | punct |
| 16 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hill | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pit | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pit | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fire | punct |
| 20 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overlooking | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 region | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 region | det |
| 23 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pit | conj |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 Kilauea | case |
| 25 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 region | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Uwe kahuna | a high hill | the northwestern side of the crater | tree rules | |||
| 2 | overlook | gerund | Uwe kahuna not said here | the fire pit and the region around Kilauea | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Theme |
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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