Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 21
Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend worth exhuming, probably connecting Waiau, the maiden, with Waiau, the lake.
What happens: bury, be, exhume, connect · To what, where: memory, legend, Waiau
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: 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 | Somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 buried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Somewhere | punct |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 memory | det |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaiian | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 Hawaiian | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hawaiian | amod |
| 10 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 legend | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hawaiian | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 legend | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 legend | det |
| 14 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memory | nmod |
| 15 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 legend | amod |
| 16 | exhuming | exhume | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 worth | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 connecting | punct |
| 18 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 19 connecting | advmod |
| 19 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 exhuming | conj |
| 20 | Waiau | Waiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 connecting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiden | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Waiau | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Waiau | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Waiau | case |
| 26 | Waiau | Waiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Waiau | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lake | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lake | det |
| 29 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Waiau | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | the memory | somewhere property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in memory=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a legend | of some old Hawaiian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exhume | gerund | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | connect | gerund | Waiau and Waiau | probably property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiau=Patient |
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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