Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 26
Akani-kolea was the hill upon which he stood clearly outlined against the sky.
Who acts: Akani kolea, puaa · What happens: be, outline · To what, where: hill
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 (Akani kolea, 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 | Akani | Akani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kolea | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Akani | punct |
| 3 | kolea | kolea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hill | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 outlined | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 outlined | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 outlined | aux |
| 11 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 12 outlined | advmod |
| 12 | outlined | outline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hill | acl:relcl |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outlined | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Akani kolea | the hill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | outline speech: other | past | puaa | upon the hill; against the sky; clearly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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