Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 51
It was from her that Maui the demi-god was represented by many legends as procuring fire for mankind.
Who acts: guardian, many legends · What happens: be, represent, procure · To what, where: Mahuike, fire
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 (guardian, many legends), 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 her | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 her | cop |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 represented | mark |
| 6 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 8 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 god | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 demi | punct |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 represented | aux:pass |
| 12 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 legends | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legends | amod |
| 15 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 represented | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 procuring | mark |
| 17 | procuring | procure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 represented | advcl |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 procuring | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 mankind | case |
| 20 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 procuring | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | guardian | from Mahuike | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | past · passive | many legends | Mahuike | Maui nsubj:pass; the demi god nsubj:pass | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | procure | gerund | many legends not said here | fire | for mankind | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Theme for mankind=Beneficiary |
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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