Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 17
Pele began to eat Hue-hue, a noted breadfruit [19] forest owned by Kamehameha.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: begin, eat, note, own · To what, where: Hue breadfruit forest
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 (Pele), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | Hue | Hue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forest | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hue | punct |
| 7 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hue | list |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 breadfruit | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 breadfruit | det |
| 10 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 breadfruit | amod |
| 11 | breadfruit | breadfruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forest | compound |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 19 | punct |
| 13 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 breadfruit | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 19 | punct |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 16 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 forest | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Kamehameha | case |
| 18 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 owned | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Pele | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Hue breadfruit forest | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | own | participle | Hue breadfruit forest not said here | Kamehameha obl:agent | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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