Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 53
He says, “It was a temple of Pele, of which Ka-maka-a-ke-akua (The-eye-of-God), a distinguished soothsayer who died in the reign of Kamehameha, was many years priest.”
Who acts: Ellis, name, distinguished soothsayer, Ka · What happens: say, be, die · To what, where: temple, years priest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ellis, name, distinguished soothsayer, Ka), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 temple | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 temple | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 temple | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 temple | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 temple | det |
| 8 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Pele | case |
| 10 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 temple | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 priest | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 priest | obl |
| 14 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 priest | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ka | punct |
| 16 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Ka | dep |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 akua | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 akua | det |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 a | punct |
| 20 | ke | ke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 akua | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ke | punct |
| 22 | akua | akua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Ka | appos |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 eye | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 The | punct |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 akua | appos |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 God | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 God | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 of | punct |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 eye | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 eye | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 soothsayer | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 soothsayer | det |
| 34 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 soothsayer | amod |
| 35 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Ka | appos |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 died | nsubj |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 soothsayer | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 reign | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 reign | det |
| 40 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 died | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Kamehameha | case |
| 42 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 reign | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ka | punct |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 priest | cop |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 years | amod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 priest | compound |
| 47 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temple | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 priest | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 temple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ellis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | name | a temple | of Pele | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die in a quote | past | a distinguished soothsayer | in the reign of Kamehameha | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in reign=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | Ka | years priest | of a temple | 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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