Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 115
They set apart a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele, and the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all the islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom over which Kama-puaa might establish rulers.
Who acts: god, Kama puaa · What happens: set apart, establish · To what, where: large portion, rulers, kingdom
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, Kama 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 set | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 portion | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 portion | amod |
| 6 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 portion | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 island | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Pele | case |
| 13 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawaii | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shore | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shore | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 17 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shore | amod |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Hilo | case |
| 20 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shore | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Kohala | case |
| 22 | Kohala | Kohala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shore | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 northwest | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 northwest | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 northwest | det |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 northwest | compound |
| 27 | northwest | northwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shore | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Hawaii | case |
| 29 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 northwest | nmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 kingdom | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kingdom | det |
| 32 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 northwest | nmod |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 establish | obl |
| 35 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 puaa | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Kama | punct |
| 37 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 establish | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 establish | aux |
| 39 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 40 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 establish | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set apart | past | god | a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele | the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom obl; apart property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient portion=Result | |||
| 2 | establish | might | Kama puaa | rulers | the kingdom | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=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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