Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 7
Pele had come from the islands of the south seas and had found the Hawaiian Islands as they are at the present day.
Who acts: Pele, island · What happens: come, find, be · To what, where: islands, Hawaiian Islands
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 (Pele, island), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 islands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 islands | det |
| 6 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 seas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seas | det |
| 9 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seas | compound |
| 10 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 islands | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 come | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Islands | det |
| 15 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Islands | compound |
| 16 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 day | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 day | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 day | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Pele | the islands of the south seas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | Pele not said here | the Hawaiian Islands | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | island | at the present day | 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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