Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 20
They came to the Hawaiian Islands only as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands from which the first Hawaiian natives emigrated.
Who acts: os, lands · What happens: come, native, emigrate · To what, where: Hawaiian Islands, first Hawaiian natives
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (os, lands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Islands | det |
| 5 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Islands | compound |
| 6 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 memories | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 memories | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 memories | det |
| 10 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 memories | amod |
| 11 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crocodiles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crocodiles | det |
| 14 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 memories | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 snakes | cc |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 snakes | amod |
| 17 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crocodiles | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lands | det |
| 20 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snakes | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 natives | nsubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 natives | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 natives | amod |
| 25 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 natives | amod |
| 26 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lands | nmod |
| 27 | emigrated | emigrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 natives | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | os = o | the Hawaiian Islands | as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | native | the lands | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | emigrate | participle | the first Hawaiian natives not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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