Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 105
When a family sent a part of the dead body of one of the household, it was with the prayer that the spirit might become an au-makua, and especially an unihipili au-makua.
Who acts: family, spirit · What happens: send, be, become · To what, where: part, au makua
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 (family, spirit), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sent | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prayer | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 body | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 household | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 household | det |
| 15 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 prayer | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prayer | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 prayer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prayer | det |
| 21 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 become | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spirit | det |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 become | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 become | aux |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 prayer | acl |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 makua | det |
| 28 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 makua | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 au | punct |
| 30 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 become | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 makua | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 makua | cc |
| 33 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 38 makua | advmod |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 makua | det |
| 35 | unihipili | unihipili | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 makua | amod |
| 36 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 makua | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 au | punct |
| 38 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prayer | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 prayer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | a family | a part of the dead body of one of the household | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | family | with the prayer and a unihipili au makua; a unihipili au makua conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | might | the spirit | a au makua | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient prayer=Result |
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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