Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 101
Therefore I place upon you my law, ‘Ke kai okia’ [Cut off by the sea] are you—separated from all for me.”
Who acts: I · What happens: place, cut off, separate · To what, where: Ke kai okia, place
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 place | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 place | nsubj |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 law | nsubj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 law | nmod:poss |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 okia | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 okia | punct |
| 10 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 okia | compound |
| 11 | kai | kai | X | _ | 12 okia | compound |
| 12 | okia | okia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | conj |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 okia | punct |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cut | punct |
| 15 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 okia | acl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 Cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Cut | obl |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cut | punct |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 separated | aux:pass |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 separated | nsubj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 separated | punct |
| 24 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 separated | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 separated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 separated | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | I | upon my law you; Ke kai okia conj; therefore property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | Ke kai okia not said here | by the sea | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | separate | present · passive | place and Ke kai okia | for me; from all; you nsubj | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from all=Co-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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