Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 45
Kaahumanu, the queen, and many other high chiefs and chiefesses thought they would go and die with him if Pele should persist in punishing him.
Who acts: many other high chiefs, chiefs, Pele · What happens: think, go, die, persist, punish · To what, where: Kaahumanu, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many other high chiefs, chiefs, 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 | Kaahumanu | Kaahumanu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chiefesses | cc |
| 12 | chiefesses | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chiefs | conj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 queen | parataxis |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 die | cc |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 die | obl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 persist | mark |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 persist | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 persist | aux |
| 24 | persist | persist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 die | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 punishing | mark |
| 26 | punishing | punish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 persist | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 punishing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | many other high chiefs and chiefesses | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | would | chiefs = chief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | with Kaahumanu | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | persist a condition, not said to happen | should | Pele | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | punish | gerund | Pele not said here | Kaahumanu | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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