Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 237
Pele called Wahine-omao from her prison and listened to the story of Hiiaka’s faithfulness.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: call, listen · To what, where: Wahine omao, Pele · 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 (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 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pele | acl |
| 3 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 omao | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 omao | punct |
| 5 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 prison | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 prison | nmod:poss |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 omao | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 listened | cc |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 faithfulness | case |
| 15 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 faithfulness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Hiiaka | case |
| 17 | faithfulness | faithfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pele | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Pele not said here | Wahine omao from Pele's prison | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | Pele not said here | to the story of Hiiaka's faithfulness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme |
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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