Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 1
The story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele, the goddess of volcanic fires, when seeking a husband for her oldest sister, has a simple and yet exceedingly human element in the incidents which cluster around the finding of a faithful follower and friend.
Who acts: story, incidents · What happens: seek, have, cluster, journey, find · To what, where: husband, simple element, incidents, finding, youngest sister, faithful follower
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, incidents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pele | case |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goddess | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goddess | det |
| 14 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fires | case |
| 16 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fires | amod |
| 17 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 goddess | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seeking | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 seeking | advmod |
| 20 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 fires | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeking | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sister | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 sister | amod |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 husband | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 element | det |
| 30 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 element | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 human | cc |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 33 exceedingly | advmod |
| 33 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 34 human | advmod |
| 34 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 simple | conj |
| 35 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 incidents | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 incidents | det |
| 38 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 element | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 cluster | nsubj |
| 40 | cluster | cluster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 incidents | acl:relcl |
| 41 | around | around | ADP | _ | 43 finding | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 finding | det |
| 43 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cluster | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 follower | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 follower | det |
| 46 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 follower | amod |
| 47 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 finding | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 friend | cc |
| 49 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 follower | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | a husband | for story's oldest sister | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent husband=Location for sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele | a simple element | the incidents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Patient | |||
| 3 | cluster | present | the incidents | the finding of a faithful follower and friend | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | the youngest sister of Pele | nom journey «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | find | a faithful follower and friend | nom finding «act 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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