Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 94
Three of the women of Kauai who were known as “the guardians of Haena” had come into the halau and taken their places near Lohiau.
Who acts: Three · What happens: know, come, take · To what, where: women, halau, places, Lohiau
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 (Three), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 come | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 women | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 women | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Three | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kauai | case |
| 6 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 women | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 known | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 known | aux:pass |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 women | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 guardians | case |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 guardians | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guardians | det |
| 13 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 known | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Haena | case |
| 15 | Haena | Haena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 guardians | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Haena | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 halau | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 halau | det |
| 21 | halau | halau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 taken | cc |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 come | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 places | nmod:poss |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taken | obj |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 Lohiau | case |
| 27 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the women of Kauai | as the guardians of Haena | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as guardian=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Three of the women of Kauai | the halau | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into halau=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | Three of the women of Kauai not said here | Pele's places | Lohiau | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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