Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 12
Na-maka-o-ka-hai, a sea-goddess, as a result of family trouble, became Pele’s most bitter enemy, fighting her with floods of water, according to the legends.
Who acts: Na, water · What happens: become, fight, accord, result, flood · To what, where: most bitter enemy, Na, family trouble
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: who acts (Na, water), 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 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 became | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Na | punct |
| 3 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Na | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ka | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 ka | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 o | punct |
| 7 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Na | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hai | punct |
| 9 | hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ka | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goddess | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 goddess | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goddess | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 14 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hai | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 result | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 result | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 result | det |
| 18 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hai | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 trouble | case |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trouble | compound |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 result | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Na | punct |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Pele | case |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 enemy | amod |
| 27 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 enemy | amod |
| 28 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fighting | punct |
| 30 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 became | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fighting | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 floods | case |
| 33 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fighting | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 floods | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 legends | punct |
| 37 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 legends | case |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 according | fixed |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 legends | det |
| 40 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fighting | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Na | Pele's most bitter enemy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | Na not said here | Na | with floods of water; accord the legends | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | result | family trouble | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | flood | water | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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