Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 1
When Pele came to the island Hawaii, seeking a permanent home, she found another god of fire already in possession of the territory.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: come, seek, find, possess · To what, where: island, permanent home, god, possession, territory
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeking | punct |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 11 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 god | det |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | nmod |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 possession | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 possession | case |
| 22 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 territory | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 territory | det |
| 25 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 possession | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Pele | the island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | Pele not said here | a permanent home | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Pele | another god of fire | possession of the territory | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Topic | |||
| 4 | possess | the territory | nom possession «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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