Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 46
These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the pre-Malay dialects of the Indian Archipelago, where pelah means “hot,” belem to “burn.”
Who acts: Fornander, pelah · What happens: carry back, mean · To what, where: Indian Archipelago, hot belem, varieties
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 (Fornander, pelah), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 varieties | det |
| 2 | varieties | variety | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 name | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 varieties | nmod |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carries | punct |
| 8 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carries | nsubj |
| 9 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 varieties | parataxis |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 carries | advmod |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 Archipelago | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dialects | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dialects | det |
| 14 | pre-Malay | pre-malay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dialects | compound |
| 15 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Archipelago | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Archipelago | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Archipelago | det |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Archipelago | amod |
| 19 | Archipelago | Archipelago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carries | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 means | advmod |
| 22 | pelah | pelah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Archipelago | acl:relcl |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hot | punct |
| 25 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 belem | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hot | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hot | punct |
| 28 | belem | belem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 burn | case |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 burn | punct |
| 31 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 belem | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Archipelago | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | present | Fornander | the Indian Archipelago to the pre-Malay dialects | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent archipelago=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | pelah | hot belem | to burn | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot belem=Theme to burn=Attribute |
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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