Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 43
The natives say, “Pele has gone to the sea by the ala huna [the hidden path].”
Who acts: natives, Pele · What happens: say, go · To what, where: sea · 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 (natives, Pele), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 6 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 huna | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 huna | det |
| 14 | ala | ala | X | _ | 15 huna | compound |
| 15 | huna | huna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obl |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 path | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 path | det |
| 18 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 path | amod |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 huna | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 path | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the natives | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · perfect | Pele | the sea | by the ala huna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_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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