Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 41
Hilo (formerly called Hiro), meaning to “twist” or “turn,” was derived from Whiro, a great Polynesian traveller and sea-robber.
What happens: call, mean, turn, derive · To what, where: Hilo, Whiro · 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: 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 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Hiro | Hiro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hiro | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meaning | punct |
| 8 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 called | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 twist | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 twist | punct |
| 11 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meaning | obl |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 twist | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 derived | cc |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 or | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 derived | aux:pass |
| 19 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 twist | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Whiro | case |
| 21 | Whiro | Whiro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 derived | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 traveller | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 traveller | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 traveller | amod |
| 25 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 traveller | amod |
| 26 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Whiro | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 robber | cc |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 robber | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sea | punct |
| 30 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 traveller | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Hilo | Hiro xcomp; formerly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | to twist | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to twist=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | derive | past · passive | Whiro | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from whiro=Material |
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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