Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 17
A better rendering is “Kane, the divine fire-maker.”
Who acts: better rendering · What happens: be · To what, where: Kane
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 (better rendering), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rendering | det |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rendering | amod |
| 3 | rendering | rendering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kane | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Kane | cop |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kane | punct |
| 6 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 maker | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maker | det |
| 9 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maker | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maker | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 12 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kane | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 maker | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 maker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a better rendering | Kane | the divine fire maker appos | 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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