Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 125
The most acceptable sacrifice to Pele was supposed to be puaa (a hog).
What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: acceptable sacrifice, 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: 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 | 4 sacrifice | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 acceptable | advmod |
| 3 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sacrifice | amod |
| 4 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Pele | case |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sacrifice | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 puaa | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 puaa | cop |
| 11 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | xcomp |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 hog | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hog | det |
| 14 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puaa | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 hog | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | the acceptable sacrifice to Pele | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | puaa | a hog appos | tree rules |
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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