Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 5
There were also many au-makuas, or ancestor ghost-gods, who were supposed to have been sent into the family by incantations and sacrifices.
Who acts: many au makuas, incantations · What happens: be, suppose, send · To what, where: many au makuas, family
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 (many au makuas, incantations), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makuas | amod |
| 5 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makuas | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 au | punct |
| 7 | makuas | makua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gods | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 gods | cc |
| 10 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gods | compound |
| 11 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gods | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ghost | punct |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makuas | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 supposed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 supposed | aux:pass |
| 17 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 makuas | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 supposed | xcomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 incantations | case |
| 26 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sacrifices | cc |
| 28 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 incantations | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many au makuas or ancestor ghost gods | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | many au makuas or ancestor ghost gods | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | incantations and sacrifices | the family | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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