Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 101
He changed his body into a kind of grass now known as Ku-kae-puaa, filling a large field with it.
Who acts: stream · What happens: change, know, fill · To what, where: body, kind, grass, large field
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 kind | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 known | advmod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grass | acl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 puaa | case |
| 13 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 puaa | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ku | punct |
| 15 | kae | kae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 puaa | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kae | punct |
| 17 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filling | punct |
| 19 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 changed | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 field | amod |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filling | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | stream | stream's body | into a kind of grass result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient into kind=Result | |||
| 2 | know | participle | grass not said here | now | as Ku kae puaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as puaa=Attribute | |||
| 3 | fill | gerund | stream not said here | a large field | with field | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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