Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 31
Her home was in the great fire-pit of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and all the eruptions of lava have borne her name wherever they may have appeared.
Who acts: home, eruptions, lava, Pele · What happens: be, bear, appear, erupt, name · To what, where: great fire pit, eruptions
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 (home, eruptions, lava, Pele), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 home | nmod:poss |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pit | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pit | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pit | amod |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fire | punct |
| 9 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 volcano | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 volcano | det |
| 12 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kilauea | case |
| 14 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 volcano | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 volcano | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaii | case |
| 19 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 island | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 borne | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 borne | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 eruptions | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eruptions | det |
| 24 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lava | case |
| 26 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eruptions | nmod |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 borne | aux |
| 28 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pit | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 borne | obj |
| 31 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 appeared | aux |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 appeared | aux |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 borne | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pele's home | the great fire pit | of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | present · perfect · passive | all eruptions of lava | Pele's name obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary name=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | may · perfect | eruptions = eruption | wherever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | erupt | lava | nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | Pele | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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