Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 1
The story of the high chiefess Kapiolani and her conflict with Pele, the goddess of Kilauea, in December, 1824, is historic.
Who acts: story, Kapiolani · What happens: be, conflict
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Kapiolani), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 historic | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chiefess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefess | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefess | amod |
| 6 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 7 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefess | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 conflict | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 conflict | nmod:poss |
| 10 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefess | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Pele | case |
| 12 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 conflict | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goddess | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goddess | det |
| 15 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Pele | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kilauea | case |
| 17 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 goddess | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 December | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 December | case |
| 20 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefess | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 1824 | punct |
| 22 | 1824 | 1824 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 December | list |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 historic | cop |
| 25 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 historic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story of the high chiefess in December and Kapiolani's conflict with Pele | historic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conflict | Kapiolani | with Pele | nom conflict «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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