Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 3
On the southeastern seacoast of the island Hawaii, near a hamlet called Keaau, is a large stone which was formerly so balanced that it could be easily moved.
Who acts: large stone · What happens: call, be, move · To what, where: hamlet, large stone, southeastern seacoast, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (large stone), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 seacoast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seacoast | det |
| 3 | southeastern | southeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seacoast | amod |
| 4 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stone | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seacoast | nmod |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hamlet | punct |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 hamlet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hamlet | det |
| 12 | hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 island | conj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hamlet | acl |
| 14 | Keaau | Keaau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seacoast | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stone | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stone | amod |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 balanced | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 balanced | cop |
| 22 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 24 balanced | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 balanced | advmod |
| 24 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stone | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 moved | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 moved | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 moved | aux:pass |
| 29 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 30 moved | advmod |
| 30 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 balanced | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a hamlet not said here | Keaau xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a large stone | the southeastern seacoast of the island and a hamlet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a large stone | balance, formerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move | could · passive | stone | easily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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