Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 20
Shortly after this flood they say the present volcanic family came from Tahiti, meaning some foreign country, to Hawaii.
Who acts: islands, present volcanic family · What happens: say, come, mean · To what, where: Hawaii, Tahiti, foreign country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (islands, present volcanic family), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 flood | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 flood | det |
| 4 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 8 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 9 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Tahiti | case |
| 13 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meaning | punct |
| 15 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 country | det |
| 17 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meaning | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hawaii | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Hawaii | case |
| 21 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | islands = island | after this flood | shortly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | past | the present volcanic family | Hawaii | Tahiti | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Initial_Location to hawaii=Destination | |||
| 3 | mean | gerund | the present volcanic family not said here | some foreign country | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic |
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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