Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 5
Ai-laau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests.
Who acts: Ai laau, fire god · What happens: be, devour · To what, where: fire god, forests
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, fire god), 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 | _ | 1 Ai | punct |
| 3 | laau | laau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 god | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 god | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 god | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 god | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 god | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 god | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | devouring | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 god | acl |
| 13 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 devouring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ai laau | the fire god | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | devour | gerund | the fire god not said here | forests | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=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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