Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 21
She greatly desired the awa fish with the mullet in the fish-pond at Kiholo, and she wanted the aku or bonita in the fish-pond at Ka-ele-hulu-hulu.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: desire, want · To what, where: awa fish, aku, fish pond
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 desired | advmod |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 5 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | compound |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mullet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mullet | det |
| 9 | mullet | mullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pond | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pond | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pond | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fish | punct |
| 14 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mullet | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Kiholo | case |
| 16 | Kiholo | Kiholo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pond | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wanted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 aku | det |
| 22 | aku | aku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanted | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 bonita | cc |
| 24 | bonita | bonita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aku | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 pond | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pond | det |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pond | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 fish | punct |
| 29 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanted | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 ele | case |
| 31 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ele | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ka | punct |
| 33 | ele | ele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanted | obl |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 hulu | punct |
| 35 | hulu | hulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 ele | conj |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 hulu | punct |
| 37 | hulu | hulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 hulu | flat:foreign |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Pele | the awa fish | with the mullet in the fish pond at Kiholo; greatly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | past | Pele | the aku or bonita | the fish pond | at Ka ele | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot aku=Theme |
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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