Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 69
Others say Ku-waha-ilo had neither father nor mother, but dwelt in the far-off heavens.
Who acts: Others, Ku waha ilo · What happens: say, have, dwell · To what, where: father, off heavens · 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 (Others, Ku waha ilo), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ilo | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ku | punct |
| 5 | waha | waha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ilo | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 waha | punct |
| 7 | ilo | ilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 father | cc:preconj |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 mother | cc |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dwelt | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dwelt | cc |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heavens | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heavens | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 off | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 far | punct |
| 20 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heavens | compound |
| 21 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dwelt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Ku waha ilo | father nor mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | Others not said here | the off heavens | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location |
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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