Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 111
Kane-kauwila-nui (Kane-who-ruled-the-great-lightning).
What happens: rule · To what, where: kauwila nui
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 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nui | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kane | punct |
| 3 | kauwila | kauwila | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nui | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 nui | punct |
| 5 | nui | nui | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kane | punct |
| 7 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nui | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 who | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Kane | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 who | punct |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 who | acl:relcl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 lightning | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lightning | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 the | punct |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lightning | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 great | punct |
| 17 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl:agent |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 who | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nui | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | participle | the great lightning obl:agent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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