Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 7
Kiwalao’s half-brother Keoua escaped to his district Ka-u, on the southwestern side of the island.
Who acts: half brother · What happens: escape · To what, where: southwestern side
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 (half brother), 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 | Kiwalao | Kiwalao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kiwalao | case |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 brother | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | nsubj |
| 6 | Keoua | Keoua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | appos |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 district | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 district | nmod:poss |
| 10 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | obl |
| 11 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 district | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 u | punct |
| 13 | u | u | NOUN | _ | 11 Ka | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | Kiwalao's half brother | the southwestern side of the island | to brother's district | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to district=Initial_Location |
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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