Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 21
When he sailed away alone it was just large enough to satisfy his need.
Who acts: puaa, boat · What happens: sail away, be, satisfy, need · To what, where: need
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 (puaa, boat), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 large | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 large | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 large | advmod |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sailed | advcl |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 large | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 satisfy | mark |
| 12 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 large | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 need | nmod:poss |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfy | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | puaa | alone, away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | boat | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | to-infinitive | boat not said here | puaa's need | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus need=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | need | puaa | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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