Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 19
Pele was carried from land to land by these wise boatmen until at last she landed on the island Niihau.
Who acts: wise boatmen, Pele · What happens: carry, land · To what, where: Pele, land, last
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 (wise boatmen, 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 boatmen | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 boatmen | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boatmen | amod |
| 11 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obl |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 landed | mark |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 landed | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 landed | nsubj |
| 16 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 landed | obl |
| 20 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 island | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | this wise boatmen | Pele | land | to land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from land=Initial_Location to land=Destination | ||
| 2 | land | past | Pele | last | on the island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination |
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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