Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 37
After a time the native imagination, which always credited ghost-gods, placed this family among the most powerful au-makuas and gave them a home in the heart of the crater.
Who acts: native imagination, ghost gods · What happens: credit, place, give · To what, where: ghost gods, family, powerful au makuas, home, gods, heart
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 (native imagination, ghost gods), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 imagination | det |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 imagination | amod |
| 6 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 credited | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 credited | nsubj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 credited | advmod |
| 10 | credited | credit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 imagination | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gods | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ghost | punct |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 credited | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 placed | punct |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gods | acl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 family | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 makuas | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 makuas | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 powerful | advmod |
| 21 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 makuas | amod |
| 22 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makuas | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 au | punct |
| 24 | makuas | makua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 placed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 home | det |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 heart | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heart | det |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 crater | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crater | det |
| 35 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | credit | past | the native imagination | ghost gods | always property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Recipient | |||
| 2 | place | participle | ghost gods not said here | this family | the powerful au makuas | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme among makua=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past | ghost gods not said here | a home | gods = god | the heart of the crater | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient home=Theme |
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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