Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 24
Ku was the fiercest and most powerful of the four chief gods.
Who acts: Ku · What happens: be
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 (Ku), 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 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fiercest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fiercest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fiercest | det |
| 4 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 powerful | cc |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fiercest | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gods | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gods | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 gods | nummod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gods | compound |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 powerful | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fiercest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ku | fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ku not said here | of the four chief gods | 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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