Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 52
A sarcastic chant has been handed down among the Hawaiians as one of the taunts hurled at Pele by Kama-puaa.
Who acts: one · What happens: hand down, hurl · To what, where: sarcastic chant, Pele
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chant | det |
| 2 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chant | amod |
| 3 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 handed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 handed | aux:pass |
| 6 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 handed | compound:prt |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaiians | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hawaiians | det |
| 10 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 handed | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 hurled | mark |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hurled | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 taunts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 taunts | det |
| 15 | taunts | taunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 handed | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Pele | case |
| 18 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hurled | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 puaa | case |
| 20 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 puaa | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 puaa | punct |
| 22 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand down | present · perfect · passive | a sarcastic chant | among the Hawaiians | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurl | past | one of the taunts | Pele | by Kama puaa | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at pele=Destination |
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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