Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 101
Hiiaka-ka-lei-ia (Hiiaka-encircled-by-garlands-of-smoke-clouds).
What happens: encircle · To what, where: lei ia
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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ia | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
| 3 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 ia | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ka | punct |
| 5 | lei | lei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ia | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 lei | punct |
| 7 | ia | ia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hiiaka | punct |
| 9 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ia | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hiiaka | punct |
| 11 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ia | acl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 encircled | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 garlands | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 by | punct |
| 15 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 encircled | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 clouds | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clouds | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 of | punct |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clouds | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 smoke | punct |
| 21 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 garlands | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 clouds | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | participle | lei ia Hiiaka not said here | by garlands | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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