Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 130
Pau-o-palae called all the wind bodies of the forest and sent them to aid Hiiaka, the forces of the forest, and the wind spirits.
Who acts: palae, Pau · What happens: call, send, aid · To what, where: wind bodies, body, Hiiaka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palae, Pau), 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 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 palae | punct |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 palae | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 o | punct |
| 5 | palae | palae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | appos |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 palae | acl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 bodies | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bodies | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bodies | compound |
| 10 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bodies | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 Pau | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 aid | mark |
| 18 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 19 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 aid | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forces | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forces | det |
| 22 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Hiiaka | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forces | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 spirits | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 spirits | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spirits | det |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spirits | compound |
| 30 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sent | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | palae not said here | all wind bodies of the forest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Pau | body | the wind spirits obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | aid | to-infinitive | Pau not said here | Hiiaka | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Beneficiary |
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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