Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 98
These priests who were also of the rank of chiefs were all killed by Pele except Kaha-wali, who escaped to Oahu.—
Who acts: priests, Pele, Kaha wali · What happens: be, kill, escape · To what, where: priests, Oahu
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, Pele, Kaha wali), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 priests | det |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rank | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rank | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 rank | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rank | det |
| 8 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 priests | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chiefs | case |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rank | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 killed | advmod |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Pele | case |
| 15 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 19 wali | case |
| 17 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wali | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kaha | punct |
| 19 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 escaped | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 escaped | nsubj |
| 22 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wali | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Oahu | case |
| 24 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 escaped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this priests | of the rank; of chiefs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | Pele | this priests | except Kaha wali; all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | escape | past | Kaha wali | Oahu | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oahu=Initial_Location |
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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