Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 117
The Thunderer and the Child-of-War were said to be hunchbacks.
What happens: say, be · To what, where: Thunderer, hunchbacks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Thunderer | det |
| 2 | Thunderer | Thunderer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 War | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 War | det |
| 5 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 War | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thunderer | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hunchbacks | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hunchbacks | cop |
| 14 | hunchbacks | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the Thunderer and the Child War | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | hunchbacks | 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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