Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 117
One of the long legends describes a new island home brought up from ocean depths by Kama-puaa, in which he established his family and from which he visited Hawaii.
Who acts: One, new island, puaa · What happens: describe, bring up, establish, visit · To what, where: ocean depths, family, Hawaii
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 (One, new island, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 legends | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legends | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legends | amod |
| 5 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 island | amod |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 describes | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 depths | case |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depths | compound |
| 15 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 puaa | case |
| 17 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 puaa | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kama | punct |
| 19 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 established | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 established | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 established | nsubj |
| 24 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 family | nmod:poss |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 established | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 visited | cc |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 visited | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 visited | nsubj |
| 31 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 established | conj |
| 32 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 visited | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | One of the long legends | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring up | past | a new island | ocean depths | by Kama puaa; home property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | establish | past | puaa | puaa's family | which obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | |||
| 4 | visit | past | puaa | Hawaii | which obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawaii=Co-Agent |
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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