Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 20
The name Wai-au means water of sufficient depth to bathe.
Who acts: name · What happens: mean, bathe · To what, where: water
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 (name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 au | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wai | punct |
| 5 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | conj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 depth | case |
| 9 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 depth | amod |
| 10 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bathe | mark |
| 12 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 water | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the name and Wai au | water of sufficient depth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bathe | to-infinitive | the name and Wai au not said here | water of sufficient depth not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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