Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 48
A prophet told Kaahumanu: “The Pele who is in the front of this outburst of fire is not strange to us.
Who acts: prophet, Pele · What happens: tell, be, not be · To what, where: Kaahumanu, front, us · 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 (prophet, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prophet | det |
| 2 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kaahumanu | Kaahumanu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 front | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pele | det |
| 8 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 front | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 front | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 front | det |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strange | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 outburst | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 outburst | det |
| 16 | outburst | outburst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 outburst | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 strange | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 strange | advmod |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 strange | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a prophet | Kaahumanu | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kaahumanu=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Pele | the front | of this outburst of fire; who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | us | strange property | tree rules |
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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