Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 40
The early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island Hawaii, near Kilauea, brought many names and legends from far-away Polynesian lands to Hawaii.
Who acts: early inhabitants · What happens: bring · To what, where: many names, Polynesian lands
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 (early inhabitants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 inhabitants | amod |
| 3 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inhabitants | nmod |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Hilo | case |
| 8 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 island | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kilauea | punct |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 Kilauea | case |
| 19 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 island | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kilauea | punct |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 names | amod |
| 23 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brought | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 legends | cc |
| 25 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 names | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 lands | case |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 lands | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 far | punct |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 lands | advmod |
| 30 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lands | amod |
| 31 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brought | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Hawaii | case |
| 33 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lands | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island | many names and legends | Polynesian lands to Hawaii | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from land=Initial_Location |
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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