Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 75
Ka-moho-alii, the shark-god, was born from the top of the head.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Ka moho alii, top
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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | moho | moho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 moho | punct |
| 5 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 god | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 8 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 god | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 shark | punct |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alii | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alii | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Ka moho alii | the top of the head | 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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