Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 2
In this legend her father was Moe-moea-au-lii, the chief who dreamed of trouble.
Who acts: Moe, chief · What happens: be, dream · To what, where: moea au lii, legend
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 (Moe, chief), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 legend | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 legend | det |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lii | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 legend | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lii | cop |
| 7 | Moe | Moe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lii | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Moe | punct |
| 9 | moea | moea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lii | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 moea | punct |
| 11 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lii | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lii | punct |
| 13 | lii | lii | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chief | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lii | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dreamed | nsubj |
| 18 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chief | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreamed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lii | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Moe | moea au lii | this legend and legend's father | the chief appos | tree rules | ||
| 2 | dream | past | the chief | of trouble | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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