Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 78
Here in the large cones built up by leaping lava, the natives said, were the homes of the family of Pele.
Who acts: natives · What happens: build up, leap, say, be · To what, where: large cones, lava, homes · 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 (natives), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cones | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cones | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cones | amod |
| 5 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | obl |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cones | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 built | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaping | mark |
| 9 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 built | advcl |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaping | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 natives | det |
| 13 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 homes | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 homes | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 homes | det |
| 18 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 family | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 homes | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Pele | case |
| 23 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 family | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build up | participle | the large cones not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | leap | gerund | lava | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lava=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the natives | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the homes | of the family of Pele | 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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