Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 167
“Dark is the prayer rising up to Kanaloa, Rising up to the ancient home Kealohilani.
Who acts: Dark, prayer · What happens: be, rise up · To what, where: prayer, Kanaloa, ancient home
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 (Dark, prayer), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prayer | punct |
| 2 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prayer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prayer | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prayer | det |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 prayer | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rising | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Kanaloa | case |
| 9 | Kanaloa | Kanaloa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rising | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rising | punct |
| 11 | Rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 rising | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 Rising | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 15 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Rising | obl |
| 17 | Kealohilani | Kealohilani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 home | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prayer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Dark | the prayer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise up in a quote | gerund | the prayer not said here | Kanaloa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kanaloa=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rise up in a quote | gerund | the prayer not said here | the ancient home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location |
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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