Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 31
Then Hiiaka thought of Moo-lau, who was the great dragon-god of the district Kohala.
Who acts: Hiiaka, Moo lau · What happens: think, be · To what, where: great dragon god
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 (Hiiaka, Moo lau), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lau | case |
| 5 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lau | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Moo | punct |
| 7 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 god | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 god | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 god | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 god | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 god | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 god | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragon | punct |
| 15 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lau | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 district | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 district | det |
| 18 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 god | nmod |
| 19 | Kohala | Kohala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 district | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Hiiaka | then | of Moo lau | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Moo lau | the great dragon god | of the district | 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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