Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 215
Another legend says that Pele sent her brother Lono-makua, with his helpers, to kindle eruptions around Lohiau and Hiiaka.
Who acts: legend, Pele · What happens: say, send, kindle · To what, where: brother, eruptions, Lohiau · 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 (legend, Pele), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 sent | mark |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 makua | punct |
| 11 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Lono | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 helpers | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 helpers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 helpers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindle | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kindle | mark |
| 18 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 19 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kindle | obj |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 Lohiau | case |
| 21 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eruptions | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Hiiaka | cc |
| 23 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lohiau | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | another legend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send | past | Pele | Pele's brother | with Lono's helpers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | kindle | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | eruptions | Lohiau and Hiiaka | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eruption=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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