Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 8
Ai-laau seemed to be destructive and was so named by the people, but his fires were a part of the forces of creation.
Who acts: Ai laau, people, fires, laau · What happens: seem, be, name, fire · To what, where: part
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, people, fires, laau), 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 | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 destructive | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 destructive | cop |
| 7 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 named | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 named | aux:pass |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 named | advmod |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seemed | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 named | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 part | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 part | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fires | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 part | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 part | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 part | det |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forces | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forces | det |
| 24 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 creation | case |
| 26 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forces | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Ai laau | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Ai laau not said here | destructive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | the people | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | laau's fires | a part | of the forces of creation | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fire | laau | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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