Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 76
He was the elder brother, the caretaker of the family, always self-denying and ready to answer any call from his relatives.
Who acts: alii · What happens: be, deny, answer · To what, where: elder brother, call, relatives
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 (alii), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 caretaker | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 caretaker | det |
| 8 | caretaker | caretaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caretaker | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 denying | punct |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 denying | advmod |
| 14 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 denying | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 self | punct |
| 16 | denying | deny | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brother | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ready | cc |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 denying | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 answer | mark |
| 20 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 call | det |
| 22 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answer | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 relatives | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 answer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | alii | the elder brother and the caretaker of the family | the caretaker of the family conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deny | gerund | self compound; always property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | any call | alii's relatives | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
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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