Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 95
Richards states that the leader of Kapiolani’s party said to him: “All the people of the district saw that she was not injured and have pronounced Pele to be powerless.”
Who acts: Richards, leader, people · What happens: state, say, see, not be, pronounce, be · To what, where: party, Pele · 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 (Richards, leader, people), 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 | Richards | Richards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 states | nsubj |
| 2 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leader | det |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 7 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 party | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Kapiolani | case |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | nmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 states | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 15 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 district | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 district | det |
| 20 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | nmod |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 states | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 injured | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 injured | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 injured | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 injured | advmod |
| 26 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saw | ccomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pronounced | cc |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 pronounced | aux |
| 29 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 saw | conj |
| 30 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 pronounced | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 powerless | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 powerless | cop |
| 33 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pronounced | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 states | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 states | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | Richards | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the leader of Kapiolani's party | party | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | all people of the district | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | past | leader | injured property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pronounce in a quote | present · perfect | all people of the district not said here | Pele | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent pele=Result | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | all people of the district not said here | powerless property | 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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