Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 14
Some legends give her a place as the wife of the great-flood survivor, Nana-Nuu, recorded by Fornander as having a cave-dwelling on the slope of Mauna Kea.
Who acts: legends · What happens: give, record, have, dwell · To what, where: place, Lilinoe, slope
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 legends | det |
| 2 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 survivor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 survivor | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flood | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 14 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 survivor | compound |
| 15 | survivor | survivor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nana | punct |
| 17 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Nuu | punct |
| 19 | Nuu | Nuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Nana | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recorded | punct |
| 21 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 give | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Fornander | case |
| 23 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 recorded | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 having | mark |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 recorded | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dwelling | det |
| 27 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dwelling | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 cave | punct |
| 29 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 having | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 slope | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 slope | det |
| 32 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dwelling | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Kea | case |
| 34 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Kea | compound |
| 35 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 slope | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | some legends | a place | Lilinoe | as the wife of the flood survivor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient place=Theme | ||
| 2 | record | participle | by Fornander | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dwell | gerund | the slope of Mauna Kea | cave compound | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=Location |
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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