Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 38
The high chief of the troubled land, with a prophet or priest, is the only one who can make peace.
Who acts: high chief, only one · What happens: be, make · To what, where: only one, peace
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 (high chief, only one), 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 | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 6 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prophet | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 prophet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prophet | det |
| 11 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 priest | cc |
| 13 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prophet | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chief | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the high chief of the troubled land and a prophet or priest | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | can | the only one | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product |
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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