Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 80

A modern reader would think that Haumea as Mother Earth threw out her children in the natural outburst of earth forces, but it is extremely doubtful if the old Hawaiians had any such idea.

Who acts: modern reader, Haumea, reader, old Hawaiians · What happens: think, throw out, be, have · To what, where: children, natural outburst, such idea

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 (modern reader, Haumea, reader, old Hawaiians), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 reader	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reader	amod
3	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 threw	mark
7	Haumea	Haumea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 threw	nsubj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Mother	case
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Haumea	nmod
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Haumea	flat
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 threw	compound:prt
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod:poss
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 threw	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 outburst	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 outburst	det
17	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 outburst	amod
18	outburst	outburst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forces	case
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forces	compound
21	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 outburst	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 doubtful	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 doubtful	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doubtful	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 doubtful	cop
26	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	27 doubtful	advmod
27	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	parataxis
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 had	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hawaiians	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Hawaiians	amod
31	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 doubtful	advcl
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 idea	det
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 idea	amod
35	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	a modern reader				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw out	past	Haumea as Mother	Haumea's children	the natural outburst of earth forces		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent child=Theme in outburst=Destination
3	is	present	reader			doubtful, extremely property	tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the old Hawaiians	any such idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 80