Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 11
The people attributed this escape to the influence of Kamehameha with the deities of the volcanoes.”
Who acts: people · What happens: attribute · To what, where: escape
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attributed | nsubj |
| 3 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 escape | det |
| 5 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attributed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 influence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 influence | det |
| 8 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attributed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kamehameha | case |
| 10 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 influence | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 deities | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deities | det |
| 13 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attributed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 volcanoes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 volcanoes | det |
| 16 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deities | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attributed | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | past | the people | this escape | to the influence of Kamehameha; with the deities of the volcanoes | 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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