Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 13

There were ohias [14] (apples) and the brilliant red, feathery blossoms of the lehua trees, and there grew the hala, from which sweet-scented skirts and mats were woven.

Who acts: ohias · What happens: be, grow, scent, weave · To what, where: hala, scented skirts

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ohias), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ohias	ohia	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 14	punct
5	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 ohias	appos
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 14	punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 apples	punct
8	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ohias	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 apples	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 blossoms	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 blossoms	det
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blossoms	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blossoms	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blossoms	amod
16	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ohias	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
19	lehua	lehua	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trees	compound
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 blossoms	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 grew	expl
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hala	det
26	hala	hala	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 woven	punct
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 woven	obl
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 scented	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sweet	punct
32	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 skirts	amod
33	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 woven	nsubj:pass
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mats	cc
35	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 skirts	conj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 woven	aux:pass
37	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 grew	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	ohias and the brilliant red feathery blossoms of the lehua trees		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past		the hala	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hala=Theme
3	scent	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	weave	past · passive		scented skirts and mats		which obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from which=Material

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 13