Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 24
It must be remembered that the Hawaiians also have the pulling up of the islands with a fish-hook by the demi-god Maui, who fished up many islands in Polynesia.
Who acts: Hawaiians, demi god · What happens: remember, have, pull, fish up · To what, where: egg, pulling up, many islands, Polynesia
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiians, demi god), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remembered | aux:pass |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hawaiians | det |
| 7 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 up | det |
| 11 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 up | amod |
| 12 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 islands | det |
| 15 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 up | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hook | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hook | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hook | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fish | punct |
| 20 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 islands | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 god | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 23 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 god | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 demi | punct |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hook | nmod |
| 26 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 god | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fished | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 fished | nsubj |
| 29 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 god | acl:relcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 fished | compound:prt |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 islands | amod |
| 32 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fished | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Polynesia | case |
| 34 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 islands | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | must · passive | egg | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the Hawaiians | the pulling up of the islands with a fish hook by the demi god | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fish up | past | the demi god | many islands | Polynesia | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Theme in polynesia=Location |
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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