Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 27
There is a legend of Kauai woven into the fairy-tale of the maiden of the mist—Laieikawai—and in this story Poliahu for a short time visits Kauai as the bride of one of the high chiefs who bore the name Aiwohikupua.
Who acts: legend, high chiefs, maiden · What happens: be, weave, visit, bear, tell · To what, where: legend, fairy tale, Kauai, story, name · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (legend, high chiefs, maiden), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 legend | det |
| 4 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kauai | case |
| 6 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 legend | nmod |
| 7 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 legend | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fairy | punct |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woven | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 maiden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mist | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mist | det |
| 18 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | nmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Laieikawai | punct |
| 20 | Laieikawai | Laieikawai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | nmod |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 visits | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 visits | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 story | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 visits | obl |
| 26 | Poliahu | Poliahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 story | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 story | nmod |
| 31 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 32 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 visits | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 bride | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bride | det |
| 35 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 visits | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 bride | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 chiefs | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 chiefs | det |
| 40 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 chiefs | amod |
| 41 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 bore | nsubj |
| 43 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 name | det |
| 45 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bore | obj |
| 46 | Aiwohikupua | Aiwohikupua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 name | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a legend of Kauai | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | a legend of Kauai not said here | the fairy tale of the maiden of the mist Laieikawai | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tale=Destination | ||||
| 3 | visit | present | a legend of Kauai not said here | Kauai | this story for a short time | as the bride of one of the high chiefs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kauai=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | bear | past | the high chiefs | the name | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tell | the maiden of the mist Laieikawai | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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