Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 16
Kane-hoa-lani might be interpreted as “Kane, the divine companion or friend.”
What happens: interpret · To what, where: Kane hoa lani
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 lani | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kane | punct |
| 3 | hoa | hoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lani | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoa | punct |
| 5 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interpreted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 interpreted | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 interpreted | aux:pass |
| 8 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Kane | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kane | punct |
| 11 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 interpreted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 companion | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 companion | det |
| 14 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 companion | amod |
| 15 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Kane | appos |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 friend | cc |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 companion | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 interpreted | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 interpreted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpret | might · passive | Kane hoa lani | as Kane | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as kane=Attribute |
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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