Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 113
It was said that Kama-puaa fled to foreign lands, where he married a high chiefess and lived with his family many years.
Who acts: Kama puaa, puaa · What happens: say, flee, marry, live · To what, where: fish, foreign lands, high chiefess · 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 (Kama puaa, puaa), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fled | mark |
| 5 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 puaa | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kama | punct |
| 7 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 10 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lands | amod |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 married | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 married | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 married | nsubj |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fled | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 chiefess | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chiefess | amod |
| 18 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 married | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lived | cc |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 years | amod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | fish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flee | past | Kama puaa | foreign lands | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | puaa | a high chiefess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chiefess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | past | puaa not said here | year | with puaa's family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=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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