Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 104
The acceptable offerings to Pele were fruits, flowers, garlands (or leis), pigs (especially the small black pig of tender flesh and delicate flavor), chickens, fish, and men.
Who acts: acceptable offerings · What happens: be · To what, where: fruits
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 (acceptable offerings), 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 | 3 offerings | det |
| 2 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 offerings | amod |
| 3 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fruits | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Pele | case |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 offerings | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fruits | cop |
| 7 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flowers | punct |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fruits | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 garlands | punct |
| 11 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fruits | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 leis | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 leis | cc |
| 14 | leis | leis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garlands | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 leis | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pigs | punct |
| 17 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leis | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 pig | punct |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 23 pig | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pig | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pig | amod |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pig | amod |
| 23 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leis | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 flesh | case |
| 25 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flesh | amod |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pig | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flavor | cc |
| 28 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flavor | amod |
| 29 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pig | conj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 pig | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 chickens | punct |
| 32 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leis | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fish | punct |
| 34 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leis | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 men | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 men | cc |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fruits | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fruits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the acceptable offerings to Pele | fruits and flowers and garlands or leis and pigs and chickens and fish and men | flowers conj; garlands or leis and pigs and chickens and fish conj; men conj | 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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