Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 31
The little sister Hiiaka, after many adventures, married Lohiau and lived on Kauai.
Who acts: little sister · What happens: marry, live · To what, where: Lohiau, 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 (little sister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj |
| 4 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 adventures | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 adventures | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adventures | amod |
| 8 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sister | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Kauai | case |
| 15 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the little sister and many adventures | Lohiau | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lohiau=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the little sister and many adventures not said here | Kauai | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kauai=Location |
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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