Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 121
Two husbands came to her while she dwelt in Kilauea, her palace of fire in the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: Two husbands, Wahieloa · What happens: come, dwell · To what, where: Wahieloa, Kilauea
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 (Two husbands, Wahieloa), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 husbands | nummod |
| 2 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 dwelt | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Kilauea | case |
| 10 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 palace | punct |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Kilauea | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Islands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Islands | det |
| 18 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Islands | compound |
| 19 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 palace | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Two husbands | Wahieloa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | Wahieloa | Kilauea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kilauea=Location |
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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