Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 127

If the hog and the fish both failed, the priest would offer any of the things into which it was said in their traditions that Kama-puaa could change himself.

Who acts: hog, priest, Kama puaa · What happens: fail, offer, say, change · To what, where: any, priest, things, puaa · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hog, priest, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 failed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hog	det
3	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 failed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fish	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hog	conj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 failed	advmod
8	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 offer	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 failed	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offer	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 offer	aux
13	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 offer	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 any	nmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 said	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	aux:pass
22	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 things	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 traditions	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 traditions	nmod:poss
25	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 change	mark
27	Kama	Kama	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 puaa	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Kama	punct
29	puaa	puaa	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 change	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 change	aux
31	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	advcl
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 change	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	the hog and the fish			both property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	would	the priest	any of the things			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		priest	the things	in things's traditions	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in tradition=Manner
4	change	could	Kama puaa	puaa			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 127

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 127