Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 29
In both cases the name means “Ku with the wormy mouth,” or “Ku, the man-eater” (The cannibal), whose act made him ferocious and inhuman in the eyes of the Hawaiians.
Who acts: name, Ku, act · What happens: mean, eater, make · To what, where: Ku, name, eyes · 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 (name, Ku, act), 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 | _ | 3 cases | case |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 cases | det |
| 3 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ku | punct |
| 8 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 11 | wormy | wormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mouth | amod |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mouth | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mouth | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 eater | cc |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 eater | punct |
| 17 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 eater | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eater | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eater | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eater | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 22 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | conj |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 eater | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 cannibal | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cannibal | det |
| 26 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eater | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 cannibal | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 act | nmod:poss |
| 30 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eater | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 inhuman | cc |
| 35 | inhuman | inhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ferocious | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 eyes | det |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Hawaiians | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Hawaiians | det |
| 41 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 eyes | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the name | Ku | with the wormy mouth or the man eater; in both cases | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot ku=Theme in case=Attribute | |||
| 2 | eater in a quote | Ku | the cannibal appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | act | name | the eyes of the Hawaiians | ferocious property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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