Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 16
She replied, “I am going to Bola-bola; to Kuai-he-lani; to Kane-huna-moku; then to Moku-mana-mana; then to see a queen, Kaoahi her name and Niihau her island.”
Who acts: Pele · What happens: reply, go, see, name · To what, where: lani, Bola bola, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bola | case |
| 9 | Bola | Bola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bola | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bola | punct |
| 11 | bola | bola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lani | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lani | case |
| 14 | Kuai | Kuai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lani | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 lani | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lani | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 lani | punct |
| 18 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 moku | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 moku | case |
| 21 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 moku | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kane | punct |
| 23 | huna | huna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moku | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 moku | punct |
| 25 | moku | moku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 mana | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 mana | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 mana | case |
| 29 | Moku | Moku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 mana | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Moku | punct |
| 31 | mana | mana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mana | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 mana | punct |
| 33 | mana | mana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moku | appos |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 see | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 see | mark |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 mana | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 queen | det |
| 39 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Kaoahi | punct |
| 41 | Kaoahi | Kaoahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 name | compound |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 name | nmod:poss |
| 43 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mana | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Niihau | cc |
| 45 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 name | conj |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 island | nmod:poss |
| 47 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mana | appos |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 mana | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 moku | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Pele | lani Kuai Kuai | huna moku Kane parataxis | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lani=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Pele | Bola bola | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bola=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | a queen | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | name in a quote | Pele | nom name «communication 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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