Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 23
“When Pele came to the island Hawaii, she first stopped at a place called Ke-ahi-a-laka in the district of Puna.
Who acts: Pele, Ke · What happens: come, stop, call, laka · To what, where: island Hawaii, place, district · 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 (Pele, Ke), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Hawaii | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawaii | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hawaii | compound |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl |
| 17 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 laka | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ke | punct |
| 19 | ahi | ahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laka | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 laka | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 laka | det |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 a | punct |
| 23 | laka | laka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 district | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 district | det |
| 26 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laka | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Puna | case |
| 28 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 district | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Pele | the island Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | past | Pele | a place | first property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | participle | a place not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laka in a quote | Ke | the district of Puna | ahi nsubj | tree rules |
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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