Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 22
If some of his household travelled with him, the canoe became the large ocean boat for the family.
Who acts: some, canoe · What happens: travel, become · To what, where: large ocean boat
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 (some, canoe), 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 | _ | 2 some | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 household | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 household | nmod:poss |
| 5 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 some | nmod |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 travelled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canoe | det |
| 11 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 travelled | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boat | amod |
| 15 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boat | compound |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 family | det |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | some of puaa's household | with puaa | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the canoe | the large ocean boat | for the family | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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