Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 59
Kamehameha and the prophet went up to the side of the lava and placed offerings and sacrifices in the flowing fire.
Who acts: Kamehameha · What happens: go up, place, flow · To what, where: offerings, flowing fire
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 (Kamehameha), 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 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 prophet | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prophet | det |
| 4 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kamehameha | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lava | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lava | det |
| 12 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placed | cc |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 placed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sacrifices | cc |
| 17 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 offerings | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 20 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 fire | amod |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Kamehameha and the prophet | to the side of the lava | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | place | past | Kamehameha and the prophet not said here | offerings and sacrifices | the flowing fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent offering=Theme in fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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