Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 81
Kama-puaa raised his voice in the great ancient chant:
Who acts: Kama puaa · What happens: raise · To what, where: voice, great ancient chant
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), 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 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chant | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chant | amod |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chant | amod |
| 11 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Kama puaa | puaa's voice | the great ancient chant | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in chant=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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