Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 4
Sometimes her brother, Kamohoalii, the great shark-god, in the form of a shark would be her surf-board.
Who acts: brother · What happens: be, form · To what, where: surf board, shark
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 (brother), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 board | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 board | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kamohoalii | punct |
| 5 | Kamohoalii | Kamohoalii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 god | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 god | amod |
| 9 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 god | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 shark | punct |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 form | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 form | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 god | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shark | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shark | det |
| 18 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 form | nmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 board | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 board | cop |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 board | nmod:poss |
| 22 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 board | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 surf | punct |
| 24 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 board | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | family's brother and the great shark god | family's surf board | family nmod:poss; sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form | a shark | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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