Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 31
The place where this monster was slain was given his name and is still called “The Swimming-Hole of Makaukiu.”
Who acts: MAKAUKIU · What happens: slay, give, call, name · To what, where: monster, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAKAUKIU), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 slain | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 monster | det |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | aux:pass |
| 7 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 called | advmod |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 given | conj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hole | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hole | det |
| 18 | Swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Hole | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Swimming | punct |
| 20 | Hole | Hole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Makaukiu | case |
| 22 | Makaukiu | Makaukiu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hole | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · passive | this monster | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the place | MAKAUKIU's name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | still | the Swimming Hole of Makaukiu xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | name | MAKAUKIU | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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