Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 48
It might be worth while for some student of the Atlantic Coast or Europe to find the derivation of the name Pele as applied to the explosive volcano of Martinique, and note its apparent connection with the Pacific languages.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, find, apply, note · To what, where: derivation, apparent connection
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 worth | cop |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 student | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 student | det |
| 8 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Coast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Coast | det |
| 11 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Coast | compound |
| 12 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 student | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Europe | cc |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Coast | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 worth | csubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 derivation | det |
| 18 | derivation | derivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 derivation | nmod |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | appos |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 applied | mark |
| 24 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 find | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 volcano | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 volcano | det |
| 27 | explosive | explosive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 volcano | amod |
| 28 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 applied | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Martinique | case |
| 30 | Martinique | Martinique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 volcano | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 note | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 note | cc |
| 33 | note | note | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | parataxis |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 connection | nmod:poss |
| 35 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 connection | amod |
| 36 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 note | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 languages | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 languages | det |
| 39 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 languages | compound |
| 40 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 note | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | It | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the derivation of the name | for some student of the Atlantic Coast or Europe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent derivation=Theme for student=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | apply | participle | to the explosive volcano of Martinique | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | note | infinitive | sun's apparent connection | with the Pacific languages | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent connection=Topic |
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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