Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 6
Sometimes when death came among the Hawaiians, a part of the body of the dead person would be thrown into the living volcano, Kilauea, with all ceremony.
Who acts: death, Hawaiians · What happens: come, throw · To what, where: Hawaiians, part, living volcano
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 (death, Hawaiians), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 Hawaiians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hawaiians | det |
| 7 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 part | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 person | amod |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 thrown | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thrown | aux:pass |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Hawaiians | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 volcano | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 volcano | det |
| 23 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 volcano | compound |
| 24 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Kilauea | punct |
| 26 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 volcano | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ceremony | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 ceremony | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 ceremony | det |
| 30 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | death | the Hawaiians | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among hawaiian=Location | |||
| 2 | throw | would · passive | the Hawaiians not said here | a part of the body of the dead person | into the living volcano result; with all ceremony | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into volcano=Result |
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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