Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 44
This meant her power as one of the divine family living in the fire of the volcano.
Who acts: This, divine family · What happens: mean, live, fire · To what, where: power, fire, volcano
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, divine family), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meant | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 meant | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 9 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 family | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 volcano | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 volcano | det |
| 17 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fire | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | This | Hiiaka's power | as one of the divine family | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent power=Topic as one=Attribute | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | the divine family not said here | the fire of the volcano | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | fire | the volcano | 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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