Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 93

The name Hopoe may mean “one encircled,” as with leis, or wreaths, or as with loving arms, or possibly it might convey the idea of one set apart in a special class or company.

Who acts: name, leis · What happens: mean, encircle, convey · To what, where: one, idea, special class · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, leis), 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 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
3	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 name	appos
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mean	obj
8	encircled	encircle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 encircled	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 encircled	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 leis	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 leis	case
13	leis	leis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encircled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wreaths	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 wreaths	cc
16	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arms	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 arms	cc
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 arms	case
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 arms	amod
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 convey	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 convey	cc
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	28 convey	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 convey	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 convey	aux
28	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 arms	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 idea	det
30	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 convey	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 set	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 set	nummod
33	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 idea	nmod
34	apart	apart	ADV	_	28 convey	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 class	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 class	det
37	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 class	amod
38	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 convey	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 company	cc
40	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 class	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	may	the name	one or wreaths		loving arms conj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	encircle in a quote	participle				as leis	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	convey	might	leis	the idea of one set	a special class or company	apart, possibly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 93