Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 248
It was said that Wahine-omao became the wife of Lono-makua, the one kindling volcanic fire.
Who acts: Wahine omao, one · What happens: say, become, kindle · To what, where: death, wife, volcanic fire · 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 (Wahine omao, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 became | mark |
| 5 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 omao | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wahine | punct |
| 7 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 makua | case |
| 12 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 makua | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lono | punct |
| 14 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | appos |
| 18 | kindling | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 one | acl |
| 19 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fire | amod |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kindling | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | past | Wahine omao | the wife of Lono makua | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kindle | gerund | the one not said here | volcanic fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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