Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 31
One of the sisters looking up saw Kama-puaa and cried out: “Oh, see that fine-looking man standing on Akani-kolea.
Who acts: One, looking man · What happens: look up, see, cry out, look, stand · To what, where: Kama puaa, looking man, Akani kolea · 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 (One, looking man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sisters | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | csubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 looking | compound:prt |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 puaa | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kama | punct |
| 10 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 see | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | conj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 man | det |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looking | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fine | punct |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 man | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 kolea | case |
| 26 | Akani | Akani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 kolea | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Akani | punct |
| 28 | kolea | kolea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | One of the sisters | Kama puaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puaa=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | One of the sisters not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | One of the sisters not said here | that looking man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | stand in a quote | gerund | that looking man not said here | Akani kolea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on kolea=Location |
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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