Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 21
After a time, Ai-laau left these pit craters and went into the great crater and was said to be living there when Pele came to the seashore far below.
Who acts: Ai laau, Pele · What happens: leave, go, say, live, come · To what, where: pit craters, great crater, seashore, Ai laau · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ai laau, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laau | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laau | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ai | punct |
| 7 | laau | laau | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 laau | acl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 craters | det |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 craters | compound |
| 11 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 crater | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crater | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crater | amod |
| 17 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux:pass |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 living | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 living | aux |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 living | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 came | advmod |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 living | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 seashore | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seashore | det |
| 30 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 below | advmod |
| 32 | below | below | ADV | _ | 27 came | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laau | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Ai laau after a time not said here | this pit craters | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Ai laau after a time not said here | the great crater | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into crater=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Ai laau after a time not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive · progressive | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | Pele | the seashore | below property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=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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