Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 126

If a hog could not be secured when an offering was necessary, the priest would take the fish humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-puaa and throw it into the pit of fire.

Who acts: offering, priest · What happens: not secure, be, take, throw · To what, where: hog, fish humu humu, humu, pit

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 (offering, priest), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 secured	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hog	det
3	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secured	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 secured	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 secured	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 secured	aux:pass
7	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 take	advcl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 necessary	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 offering	det
10	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 necessary	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 necessary	cop
12	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 secured	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 secured	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 priest	det
15	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 humu	det
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 humu	compound
20	humu	humu	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 humu	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 humu	punct
22	humu	humu	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 nuku	punct
24	nuku	nuku	X	Foreign=Yes	22 humu	appos
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 nuku	punct
26	nuku	nuku	X	Foreign=Yes	24 nuku	flat:foreign
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 puaa	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 puaa	det
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 a	punct
30	puaa	puaa	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nuku	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 throw	cc
32	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throw	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 pit	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pit	det
36	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 throw	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 fire	case
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pit	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not secure a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		a hog		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	a offering		necessary property	tree rules
3	take	would	the priest	the fish humu humu		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humu=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	the priest not said here	humu	into the pit of fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into pit=Result

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 126