Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 7
He had been endowed with super-human powers, according to the legends, and was many times called Puaa-akua (Hog-god) of Oahu.
What happens: endow, accord, be, call · To what, where: puaa, many times · 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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 endowed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 endowed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 endowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 powers | case |
| 6 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 powers | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 super | punct |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 powers | amod |
| 9 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 legends | punct |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 legends | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 legends | det |
| 14 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endowed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 times | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 times | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 times | cop |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 times | amod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endowed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 times | acl |
| 21 | Puaa | Puaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 akua | punct |
| 23 | akua | akua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Puaa | appos |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 god | punct |
| 25 | Hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 god | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hog | punct |
| 27 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 akua | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 god | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Oahu | case |
| 30 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 god | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | past · perfect · passive | puaa | with super human powers; accord the legends | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | many times | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | many times not said here | Puaa xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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