Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 1
The simplest, most beautiful legend does not mention the land from which Pele started.
Who acts: simplest beautiful legend, Pele · What happens: not mention, start · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simplest beautiful legend, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 legend | det |
| 2 | simplest | simple | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 legend | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 simplest | punct |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legend | amod |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mention | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mention | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mention | advmod |
| 9 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mention | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 started | obl |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 land | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | present · do-support | the simplest beautiful legend | the land | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent land=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Pele | the land | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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