Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 42
A queen of the island Maui had also a promise given by Aiwohikupua.
Who acts: queen · What happens: have, give · To what, where: promise
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 (queen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | nmod |
| 6 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 island | appos |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 promise | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 promise | det |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 promise | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Aiwohikupua | case |
| 13 | Aiwohikupua | Aiwohikupua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a queen of the island | a promise | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a promise not said here | by Aiwohikupua | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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