Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 12
Evidently in a very short time the egg was changed into a beautiful little girl who bore the name Hii-aka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele (Hiiaka-in-the-bosom-of-Pele), the youngest one of the Pele family.
Who acts: beautiful little girl · What happens: change, bear · To what, where: egg, name
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 (beautiful little girl), 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 | Evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 10 changed | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 short | advmod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 egg | det |
| 8 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux:pass |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bore | nsubj |
| 17 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 girl | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bore | obj |
| 20 | Hii | Hii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 name | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hii | punct |
| 22 | aka | aka | ADV | _ | 17 bore | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 aka | punct |
| 24 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ka | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ka | punct |
| 26 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 aka | conj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 poli | punct |
| 28 | poli | poli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ka | flat |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Pele | punct |
| 30 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 32 Pele | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 o | punct |
| 32 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 poli | appos |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Hiiaka | punct |
| 34 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Pele | conj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 bosom | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 bosom | case |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 in | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bosom | det |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 the | punct |
| 40 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Pele | conj |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Pele | punct |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Pele | case |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 of | punct |
| 44 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bosom | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 Pele | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 one | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 one | det |
| 48 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 49 one | amod |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Pele | appos |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 family | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 family | det |
| 52 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 family | compound |
| 53 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 one | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | the egg | time | into a beautiful little girl result; evidently property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into girl=Result | |||
| 2 | bear | past | a beautiful little girl | the name | aka property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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