Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 77
“O my friend of the steep ridges above Keaau, My friend who made garlands Of the lehua blossoms of Kaliu, Hopoe is driven away to the sea— The sea of Lanahiku.”
Who acts: friend · What happens: make, drive away · To what, where: garlands, friend, sea
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 (friend), 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 | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 friend | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driven | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ridges | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ridges | det |
| 7 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ridges | amod |
| 8 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 friend | nmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 Keaau | case |
| 10 | Keaau | Keaau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ridges | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friend | punct |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 friend | acl:relcl |
| 16 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 20 blossoms | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blossoms | det |
| 19 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blossoms | compound |
| 20 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 garlands | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kaliu | case |
| 22 | Kaliu | Kaliu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 blossoms | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hopoe | punct |
| 24 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kaliu | conj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 driven | aux:pass |
| 26 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 driven | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driven | obl |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 sea | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driven | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Lanahiku | case |
| 35 | Lanahiku | Lanahiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sea | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 driven | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | My friend | garlands of the lehua blossoms of Kaliu and Hopoe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Product | ||||
| 2 | drive away in a quote | present · passive | my friend of the steep ridges above Keaau and My friend | the sea | the sea of Lanahiku obl; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to sea=Trajectory |
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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