Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 28
Ku-waha-ilo is in some legends called Ku-aha-ilo.
Who acts: Ku waha ilo, legends · What happens: be, call · To what, where: legends, Ku aha ilo · Speech: someone speaks here
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 waha ilo, legends), 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 | 5 ilo | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ku | punct |
| 3 | waha | waha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ilo | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 waha | punct |
| 5 | ilo | ilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 legends | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 legends | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 legends | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 legends | det |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 legends | acl |
| 11 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ilo | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ku | punct |
| 13 | aha | aha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ilo | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ilo | punct |
| 15 | ilo | ilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 legends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ku waha ilo | some legends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | some legends not said here | Ku aha ilo | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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