Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 18
She was jealous of him and angry because he was stingy in his offerings of breadfruit from the tabu grove of Hue-hue.
Who acts: Pele, Kamehameha · What happens: be, offer · To what, where: offerings, breadfruit
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, Kamehameha), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jealous | cop |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jealous | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jealous | conj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 stingy | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stingy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stingy | cop |
| 11 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jealous | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 offerings | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 offerings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stingy | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 breadfruit | case |
| 16 | breadfruit | breadfruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offerings | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 grove | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grove | det |
| 19 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grove | compound |
| 20 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breadfruit | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hue | case |
| 22 | Hue | Hue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hue | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hue | punct |
| 24 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grove | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pele | of Kamehameha; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Pele not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Kamehameha | Kamehameha's offerings of breadfruit from the tabu grove of Hue hue | stingy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | offer | Kamehameha | breadfruit from the tabu grove of Hue hue | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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