Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 47
This child after death was given to Pele with sacrifices and ceremonies which would make it one of the ghost-gods connected with the Pele family.
Who acts: ceremonies · What happens: give, make, connect · To what, where: child, Pele, ghost gods
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 (ceremonies), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 death | case |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 child | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Pele | case |
| 8 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sacrifices | case |
| 10 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ceremonies | cc |
| 12 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sacrifices | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ceremonies | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gods | det |
| 20 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gods | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ghost | punct |
| 22 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 23 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 gods | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 family | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 family | det |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 family | compound |
| 27 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 connected | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | this child after death | Pele | with sacrifices and ceremonies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to pele=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | would | ceremonies | child | one of the ghost gods xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | connect | participle | the ghost gods not said here | with the Pele family | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with family=Co-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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