Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 35
He did not make any statement about the parents of the legendary family, but said that the Pele family was driven from Samoa in the eleventh century, finding a home in the southwestern part of the island Hawaii near the volcano Kilauea.
Who acts: king · What happens: not make, say, drive, find · To what, where: statement, Pele family, Samoa, home, southwestern part · 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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 statement | det |
| 6 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parents | det |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 statement | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 12 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 family | amod |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parents | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 driven | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 19 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 family | compound |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Samoa | case |
| 24 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 finding | punct |
| 30 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 home | det |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 finding | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 part | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 part | det |
| 35 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 part | amod |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 finding | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 island | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 island | det |
| 39 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 part | nmod |
| 40 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 island | appos |
| 41 | near | near | ADP | _ | 43 volcano | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 volcano | det |
| 43 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 island | nmod |
| 44 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 volcano | appos |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · do-support | king | any statement | about the parents of the legendary family | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | drive | past · passive | the Pele family | Samoa | century | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from samoa=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | find | gerund | a home | the southwestern part of the island near the volcano | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
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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