Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 32
Those who knew about Pana-ewa brought offerings of awa [15] to drink, taro and red fish to eat, tapa for mats, and malos, or girdles.
Who acts: Those · What happens: know, bring, drink, eat, offer · To what, where: offerings, taro, awa
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 (Those), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 Pana | case |
| 5 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ewa | punct |
| 7 | ewa | ewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pana | conj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 awa | case |
| 11 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offerings | nmod |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 15 | punct |
| 13 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 brought | obl |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 15 | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taro | punct |
| 18 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fish | cc |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taro | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fish | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tapa | punct |
| 25 | tapa | tapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taro | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 mats | case |
| 27 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tapa | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 malos | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 malos | cc |
| 30 | malos | malo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 girdles | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 girdles | cc |
| 33 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 malos | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | about Pana and ewa; who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about pana=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | Those | offerings of awa | 15 obl; malos or girdles parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | |||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | Those not said here | taro and red fish and tapa for mats | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taro=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Those not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | offer | awa | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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