Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 61
Kamehameha then cut some of the hair from his head and threw it in the fire as his last offering, thus giving himself to the god of fire.
Who acts: Kamehameha · What happens: cut, throw, give, offer · To what, where: some, head, fire, Kamehameha
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 | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cut | advmod |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 cut | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hair | det |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 offering | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 offering | nmod:poss |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 offering | amod |
| 20 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 giving | punct |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 giving | advmod |
| 23 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 threw | advcl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 giving | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 god | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 god | det |
| 27 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 giving | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fire | case |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 god | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Kamehameha | some of the hair | Kamehameha's head | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent some=Product from head=Material | ||
| 2 | throw | past | Kamehameha not said here | head | the fire | as Kamehameha's last offering | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination | ||
| 3 | give | gerund | Kamehameha not said here | Kamehameha | to the god of fire; thus property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to god=Recipient | |||
| 4 | offer | Kamehameha | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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