Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 50
Kama-puaa had too many of the habits and instincts of a hog to please Pele, and she was too quickly angry to suit the overbearing Kama-puaa.
Who acts: Kama puaa, Pele · What happens: have, please, be, suit · To what, where: many, Pele, overbearing Kama puaa
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 (Kama puaa, Pele), 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 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 puaa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kama | punct |
| 3 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 habits | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 habits | det |
| 9 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 many | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 instincts | cc |
| 11 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 habits | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hog | det |
| 14 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instincts | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 please | mark |
| 16 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hog | acl |
| 17 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 please | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 angry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 angry | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 angry | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 quickly | advmod |
| 23 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 angry | advmod |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 suit | mark |
| 26 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 angry | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 puaa | det |
| 28 | overbearing | overbearing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 puaa | amod |
| 29 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 puaa | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kama | punct |
| 31 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suit | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kama puaa | many of the habits and instincts of a hog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | ||||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | Kama puaa not said here | Pele | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pele=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Pele | angry, quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suit | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | the overbearing Kama puaa | tree rules |
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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