Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 20
The great Hina was a goddess whose stories frequently placed her in close relation to the moon.
Who acts: great Hina, stories · What happens: be, place · To what, where: goddess, Pele, close relation
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 (great Hina, stories), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hina | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hina | amod |
| 3 | Hina | Hina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goddess | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 goddess | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 goddess | det |
| 6 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 stories | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 10 placed | advmod |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 goddess | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 relation | case |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 relation | amod |
| 14 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goddess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great Hina | a goddess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | past | stories | Pele | close relation | to the moon; frequently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in relation=Destination |
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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