Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 17
Apparently her journey would be first to Bola-bola in the Society Islands, then among the mysterious ancestral islands, and then to the northwest until she found Niihau, the most northerly of the Hawaiian group.
Who acts: journey, Pele · What happens: be, find, journey · To what, where: Niihau
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 (journey, 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 | Apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 6 first | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 journey | nmod:poss |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 first | cop |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bola | case |
| 8 | Bola | Bola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bola | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bola | punct |
| 10 | bola | bola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Islands | det |
| 13 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 bola | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 islands | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 islands | advmod |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 19 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 islands | amod |
| 20 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 islands | amod |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 first | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 northwest | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 northwest | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 northwest | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 northwest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 northwest | det |
| 27 | northwest | northwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | conj |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 found | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 northwest | advcl |
| 31 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 group | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 group | det |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 northerly | advmod |
| 35 | northerly | northerly | ADV | _ | 39 group | advmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 group | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 group | det |
| 38 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 group | compound |
| 39 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Niihau | appos |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Pele's journey | to Bola bola in the Society Islands; the mysterious ancestral islands conj; the northwest conj; apparently, first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Pele | Niihau | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niihau=Topic | ||||
| 3 | journey | Pele | nom journey «act 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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