Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 30
Ki-lau-ea means “the rising up or living leaf of the ti-plant.”
Who acts: lau ea · What happens: mean, rise up, live · To what, where: leaf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lau ea), 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 | Ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lau | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ki | punct |
| 3 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ea | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ea | punct |
| 5 | ea | ea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rising | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rising | det |
| 9 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 rising | compound:prt |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 living | cc |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rising | conj |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 living | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plant | det |
| 16 | ti | ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plant | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ti | punct |
| 18 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaf | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | lau ea | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rise up in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live in a quote | gerund | leaf of the ti plant | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme leaf=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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