Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 69
“For me is the island, inland, seaward, and all around Kauai.
Who acts: Lohiau · What happens: be
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 (Lohiau), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 island | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 island | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inland | punct |
| 8 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 6 island | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seaward | punct |
| 10 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 island | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kauai | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Kauai | cc |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 Kauai | advmod |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 Kauai | case |
| 15 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Lohiau | for the island and seaward and Kauai; seaward conj; Kauai conj; inland property | tree rules |
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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