Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 170
The black dog of the heavens, The yellow dog of Ku in the small cloud, Ku is in the long cloud, Ku is in the short cloud, Ku is in the cloud of red spots in the sky.
Who acts: Ku · What happens: be · To what, where: long cloud, short cloud, cloud, black dog
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 (Ku), 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 | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heavens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heavens | det |
| 6 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dog | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ku | case |
| 12 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cloud | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cloud | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cloud | amod |
| 16 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cloud | punct |
| 18 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cloud | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cloud | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cloud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cloud | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cloud | amod |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cloud | punct |
| 25 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 cloud | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cloud | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 cloud | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cloud | det |
| 29 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cloud | amod |
| 30 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloud | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cloud | punct |
| 32 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 cloud | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 cloud | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 cloud | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cloud | det |
| 36 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cloud | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 spots | case |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 spots | amod |
| 39 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cloud | nmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sky | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sky | det |
| 42 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spots | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ku | the long cloud and the short cloud and the cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Ku | the short cloud and the cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Ku | the cloud | of red spots in the sky | tree rules |
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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