Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 53
Ululani asked, “Who is that very strange fire in front of Pele?”
Who acts: Ululani · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: strange fire, front · 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 (Ululani), 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 | Ululani | Ululani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fire | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fire | cop |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 fire | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 strange | advmod |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pele | case |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ululani | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that strange fire | front of Pele | Who nsubj | 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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