Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 82
The youngest of the family, Hiiaka-in-the-bosom-of-Pele, was born an egg.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Hiiaka
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 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 youngest | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hiiaka | punct |
| 7 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bosom | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bosom | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bosom | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 the | punct |
| 13 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Hiiaka | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pele | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Pele | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 17 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bosom | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hiiaka | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 youngest | parataxis |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 egg | det |
| 22 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 born | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Hiiaka | a egg obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary egg=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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