Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 18
In most of the legends and genealogies he is given a place among Pele’s brothers.
What happens: give · To what, where: Kane, most
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 given | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 legends | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 legends | det |
| 5 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 most | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 genealogies | cc |
| 7 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legends | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Pele | case |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Kane | most of the legends and genealogies | among Pele's brothers; a place obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient place=Theme |
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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