Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 45
At last she sent her brother Kane-hoa-lani to speak to him.
Who acts: Pele, Kane · What happens: send, lani, speak · To what, where: brother, last, Kane · 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 (Pele, Kane), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sent | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lani | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kane | punct |
| 9 | hoa | hoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lani | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 lani | punct |
| 11 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lani | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Pele | Pele's brother | last | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | lani | Kane | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Kane | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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