Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 50
There the great goddess of fire was named Mahuike, who was known throughout Polynesia as the divine guardian of fire.
What happens: name, know · To what, where: great goddess, Mahuike
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 named | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goddess | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goddess | amod |
| 4 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goddess | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 named | aux:pass |
| 8 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Mahuike | Mahuike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 named | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Mahuike | acl |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 15 Polynesia | case |
| 15 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 guardian | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 guardian | det |
| 18 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 guardian | amod |
| 19 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guardian | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the great goddess of fire | there | Mahuike xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | Mahuike | throughout Polynesia | as the divine guardian of fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as guardian=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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