Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 98

He says: “In 1836, twelve years after the visit of Kapiolani, among these converts was the High Priest of the volcano.

Who acts: Titus · What happens: say, be, visit · To what, where: High Priest, Kapiolani · 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 (Titus), 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	_	9 years	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 years	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	6 1836	case
6	1836	1836	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 1836	punct
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 1836	flat
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	ccomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 visit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 visit	det
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Kapiolani	case
14	Kapiolani	Kapiolani	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 visit	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 converts	punct
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 converts	case
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 converts	det
18	converts	convert	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 years	parataxis
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Priest	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Priest	det
21	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Priest	amod
22	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 converts	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 volcano	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 volcano	det
25	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Priest	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Titus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past		the High Priest	of the volcano	tree rules
3	visit in a quote			Kapiolani		nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 98