Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 14
One set of legends says that Kane-hoa-lani was the father and Hina-alii was the mother.
Who acts: One set, Kane hoa lani, Hina · What happens: say, be · To what, where: father, mother · 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: who acts (One set, Kane hoa lani, Hina), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 set | nummod |
| 2 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 legends | case |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 father | mark |
| 7 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lani | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kane | punct |
| 9 | hoa | hoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lani | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoa | punct |
| 11 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 father | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Hina | cc |
| 16 | Hina | Hina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 alii | punct |
| 18 | alii | alii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hina | conj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mother | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mother | det |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | One set of legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kane hoa lani | the father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Hina and alii | the mother | 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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