Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 97
Hiiaka-wawahi-lani (Hiiaka-breaking-the-heavens-for-the-heavy-rain-to-fall).
To what, where: Hiiaka wawahi lani
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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lani | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
| 3 | wawahi | wawahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lani | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wawahi | punct |
| 5 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaking | punct |
| 7 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 breaking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hiiaka | punct |
| 9 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lani | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavens | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heavens | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 the | punct |
| 13 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 breaking | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 rain | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 rain | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 for | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rain | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 the | punct |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rain | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 heavy | punct |
| 21 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavens | nmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fall | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 fall | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rain | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaking | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lani | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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