Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 114
Sometime during this adventure of Kama-puaa in the domains of Pele, the islands were divided between the two demi-gods, and an oath of divine solemnity was taken by them.
Who acts: god · What happens: divide, take, adventure · To what, where: adventure, oath, Kama puaa
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 (god), 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 | Sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 adventure | advmod |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 4 adventure | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 adventure | det |
| 4 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 puaa | case |
| 6 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 puaa | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kama | punct |
| 8 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adventure | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 domains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 domains | det |
| 11 | domains | domain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 puaa | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Pele | case |
| 13 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 domains | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 adventure | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 divided | aux:pass |
| 18 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 gods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 gods | nummod |
| 22 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gods | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 demi | punct |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 divided | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 taken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taken | cc |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 oath | det |
| 28 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 solemnity | case |
| 30 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 solemnity | amod |
| 31 | solemnity | solemnity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 oath | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux:pass |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 divided | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 taken | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · passive | this adventure of Kama puaa in the domains of Pele | between the two demi gods; the islands nsubj:pass | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | god | a oath of divine solemnity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adventure | Kama puaa in the domains of Pele | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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