Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 32
He landed and proposed marriage, but she made a betrothal with him by the exchange of the cloaks which they were wearing.
Who acts: Hamakua, Aiwohikupua, cloaks · What happens: land, propose, make, wear, exchange · To what, where: marriage, betrothal, cloaks
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 (Hamakua, Aiwohikupua, cloaks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 landed | nsubj |
| 2 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 proposed | cc |
| 4 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 landed | conj |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proposed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 landed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 betrothal | det |
| 11 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 exchange | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 exchange | det |
| 16 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cloaks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cloaks | det |
| 19 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 exchange | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 wearing | nsubj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wearing | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wearing | aux |
| 23 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cloaks | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Hamakua | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | propose | past | Hamakua not said here | marriage | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Aiwohikupua | a betrothal | with Hamakua; by the exchange of the cloaks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent betrothal=Product | |||
| 4 | wear | past · progressive | the cloaks | betrothal nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | exchange | the cloaks | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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