Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 45
In Tahitian, Pere is a volcano.”
What happens: be · To what, where: volcano, Tahitian
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tahitian | case |
| 2 | Tahitian | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 volcano | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tahitian | punct |
| 4 | Pere | Pere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tahitian | flat |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 volcano | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 volcano | det |
| 7 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 volcano | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 volcano | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a volcano | Tahitian | tree rules |
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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