Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 42
The stories of Maui and Puna came from other lands, so also came some of the myths of Pele.
Who acts: stories · What happens: come · To what, where: other lands, some
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 (stories), 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 | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Maui | case |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stories | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Puna | cc |
| 6 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Maui | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 came | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 myths | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 myths | det |
| 18 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 some | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Pele | case |
| 20 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 myths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the stories of Maui and Puna | other lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the stories of Maui and Puna not said here | some of the myths of Pele | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location some=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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