Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 2
Ai-laau was known and feared by all the people.
What happens: know, fear · To what, where: Ai laau
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: 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 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laau | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 laau | punct |
| 3 | laau | laau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feared | cc |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feared | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Ai laau | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fear | participle | by all people | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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