Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 46
One of the high chiefesses, Ululani, had lost a child some time before.
What happens: lose · To what, where: child, One
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chiefesses | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefesses | det |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chiefesses | amod |
| 5 | chiefesses | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ululani | punct |
| 7 | Ululani | Ululani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chiefesses | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 One | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 lost | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | a child | time | before property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |
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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