Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 20
It was the fish into which the fabled demi-god Kamapuaa changed himself when fleeing from the destructive fires of Pele.
Who acts: pig, fabled demi god · What happens: be, fable, change, flee, fire · To what, where: fish, god, destructive fires, Pele
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 (pig, fabled demi god), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 changed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 8 | fabled | fable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 god | amod |
| 9 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 god | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 demi | punct |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | Kamapuaa | Kamapuaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 god | appos |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | parataxis |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 changed | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fleeing | advmod |
| 16 | fleeing | flee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 changed | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 fires | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fires | det |
| 19 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fires | amod |
| 20 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fleeing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pele | case |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fires | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pig | the fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fable | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | change | past | the fabled demi god | god | into the fish | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into which=Result | |||
| 4 | flee | gerund | the fabled demi god not said here | the destructive fires of Pele | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fire=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fire | Pele | nom fire «event 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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