Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 10
Ka-moho-alii, whose name was sometimes given as Ka-moo-alii, was king of the sharks.
What happens: give, be · To what, where: name, king, moho alii
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | moho | moho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 alii | punct |
| 5 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 given | advmod |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 alii | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 alii | case |
| 13 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 alii | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ka | punct |
| 15 | moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alii | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 moo | punct |
| 17 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 king | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 king | cop |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sharks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sharks | det |
| 23 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 king | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alii | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | name | as Ka moo alii; sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | king | of the sharks | tree rules |
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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