Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 72
The first, Na-maka-o-ka-hai, was born from the breasts of Haumea.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Na, breasts
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 4 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 maka | punct |
| 6 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Na | dep |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ka | punct |
| 8 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 ka | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 o | punct |
| 10 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maka | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hai | punct |
| 12 | hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ka | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Na | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 born | aux:pass |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 first | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 breasts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 breasts | det |
| 18 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 born | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Haumea | case |
| 20 | Haumea | Haumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 breasts | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Na | the breasts of Haumea | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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