Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 58
Kamehameha’s prophets said that this eruption was the favor of the gods on his temple building.
Who acts: prophets, eruption · What happens: say, be · To what, where: favor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophets, eruption), 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 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prophets | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kamehameha | case |
| 3 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 favor | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 eruption | det |
| 7 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 favor | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 favor | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 favor | det |
| 10 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 favor | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 building | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 building | nmod:poss |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 building | compound |
| 17 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gods | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kamehameha's prophets | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this eruption | the favor | of the gods on eruption's temple building | 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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