Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 112

The Hawaiians say that this fish has always been able to make a noise like the grunting of a small hog, so it was given the name Humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-puaa.

Who acts: Hawaiians, fish · What happens: say, be, make, give · To what, where: noise, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hawaiians, fish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hawaiians	det
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 able	mark
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 able	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 able	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 able	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 able	cop
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 noise	det
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 grunting	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grunting	det
17	grunting	grunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noise	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hog	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hog	amod
21	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grunting	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 given	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux:pass
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 name	det
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obj
29	Humu	Humu	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 humu	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 humu	punct
31	humu	humu	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 name	appos
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 nuku	punct
33	nuku	nuku	X	Foreign=Yes	31 humu	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 nuku	punct
35	nuku	nuku	X	Foreign=Yes	33 nuku	flat:foreign
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 puaa	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 puaa	det
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 a	punct
39	puaa	puaa	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nuku	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Hawaiians			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present · perfect	this fish		able, always property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	this fish not said here	a noise	like the grunting of a small hog	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
4	give	past · passive		fish	the name obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 112