Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 24
There is a story of her appearance as a dream maiden before the king of Kauai, whose name was Lohiau, whom she married, but with whom she could not stay until she had found a place where she could build a permanent home for herself and all who belonged to her.
Who acts: story, name, Lohiau · What happens: be, marry, not stay, find, build, belong · To what, where: Lohiau, king, place, permanent home, Kauai
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 (story, name, Lohiau), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maiden | compound |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appearance | nmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kauai | case |
| 16 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lohiau | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Lohiau | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Lohiau | cop |
| 21 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 married | punct |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 married | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 married | nsubj |
| 25 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stay | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 stay | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 stay | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stay | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 stay | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 stay | advmod |
| 33 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | conj |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 found | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 found | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | aux |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 stay | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | obj |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 build | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 build | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 build | aux |
| 43 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 place | acl:relcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 home | det |
| 45 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 home | amod |
| 46 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 build | obj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 herself | case |
| 48 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 build | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 all | cc |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 found | obj |
| 51 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 belonged | nsubj |
| 52 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 all | acl:relcl |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 her | case |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 belonged | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a story of story's appearance as a dream maiden | there | before the king of Kauai | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Lohiau's name | Lohiau | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | story | the king of Kauai | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not stay | could | story | whom obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with whom=Location | ||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | story | a place | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme all=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | build | could | story | a permanent home | for Kauai | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent home=Product for herself=Asset | |||
| 7 | belong | past | Kauai | who nsubj | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | name | Lohiau | 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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