Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 79
Thus the family came from the arms, from the wrists, the palms of the hands, the fingers, the various joints, and even from the toes.
Who acts: family · What happens: come · To what, where: arms
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 (family), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arms | det |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrists | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wrists | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wrists | det |
| 11 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 palms | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palms | det |
| 14 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrists | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hands | det |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 palms | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fingers | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fingers | det |
| 20 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrists | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 joints | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 joints | det |
| 23 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 joints | amod |
| 24 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fingers | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 toes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 toes | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 toes | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 toes | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 toes | det |
| 30 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the family | the arms | from the wrists and the palms of the hands and the fingers and the various joints; from the toes; thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from arm=Initial_Location from wrist=Destination |
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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