Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 63
S. Percy Smith, who was for a long time Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand and now is President of the Polynesian Society for Legendary and Historical Research, writes that the full name for Pele among the New Zealand Maoris is “Para-whenua-mea, which through well-known letter changes is identical with the full Hawaiian name Pele-honua-mea.”
Who acts: S., Zealand Maoris, full name · What happens: be, write, know, change · To what, where: President, whenua mea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (S., Zealand Maoris, full name), 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 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | flat |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Minister | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Minister | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Minister | cop |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Minister | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Minister | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Minister | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Minister | compound |
| 11 | Minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Affairs | case |
| 13 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Affairs | amod |
| 14 | Affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Minister | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Zealand | case |
| 16 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zealand | flat |
| 17 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Affairs | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 President | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 President | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 President | cop |
| 21 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zealand | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Society | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Society | det |
| 24 | Polynesian | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Society | compound |
| 25 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 President | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Legendary | case |
| 27 | Legendary | Legendary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Society | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Research | cc |
| 29 | Historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Research | amod |
| 30 | Research | Research | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Legendary | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 S. | punct |
| 32 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 changes | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 name | det |
| 35 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 name | amod |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 changes | nsubj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 Pele | case |
| 38 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 name | nmod |
| 39 | among | among | ADP | _ | 50 mea | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Maoris | det |
| 41 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Zealand | flat |
| 42 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Maoris | compound |
| 43 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 mea | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 mea | cop |
| 45 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 mea | punct |
| 46 | Para | para | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 whenua | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Para | punct |
| 48 | whenua | whenua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mea | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 whenua | punct |
| 50 | mea | mea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 name | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 known | punct |
| 52 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 known | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | through | through | ADV | _ | 56 known | advmod |
| 54 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 56 known | advmod |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 well | punct |
| 56 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 mea | parataxis |
| 57 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 known | obj |
| 58 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 identical | advcl |
| 59 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 identical | cop |
| 60 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 writes | ccomp |
| 61 | with | with | ADP | _ | 65 name | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 name | det |
| 63 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 name | amod |
| 64 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 name | amod |
| 65 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 identical | obl |
| 66 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 name | appos |
| 67 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 Pele | punct |
| 68 | honua | honua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 mea | compound |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 68 honua | punct |
| 70 | mea | mea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 name | conj |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 60 identical | punct |
| 72 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 writes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | S. | for a long time Minister; of Native Affairs in New Zealand and President | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | S. not said here | President | now | of the Polynesian Society for Legendary and Historical Research | tree rules | ||
| 3 | write | present | S. | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Zealand Maoris | among whenua mea | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | participle · passive | whenua mea | letter obj; through, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | change in a quote | present | the full name for Pele | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | S. not said here | with the full Hawaiian name and honua mea; identical property | tree rules |
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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