Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 33
The oldest and most authoritative legends say that Kane-hoa-lani was her brother and that Hina was the creator of a flood or great tidal wave which drove Pele from place to place over the ocean.
Who acts: oldest legends, Kane hoa lani, Hina, great tidal wave · What happens: say, be, drive · To what, where: brother, creator, Pele, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (oldest legends, Kane hoa lani, Hina, great tidal wave), 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 | 2 oldest | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 legends | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 authoritative | cc |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 authoritative | advmod |
| 5 | authoritative | authoritative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 oldest | conj |
| 6 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 brother | mark |
| 9 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lani | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kane | punct |
| 11 | hoa | hoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lani | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hoa | punct |
| 13 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brother | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 creator | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 creator | mark |
| 19 | Hina | Hina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 creator | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 creator | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 creator | det |
| 22 | creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 flood | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 flood | det |
| 25 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 creator | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 wave | cc |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wave | amod |
| 28 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wave | amod |
| 29 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flood | conj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 drove | nsubj |
| 31 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wave | acl:relcl |
| 32 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 drove | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drove | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 place | nmod |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 ocean | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ocean | det |
| 39 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 place | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | oldest legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kane hoa lani | legend's brother and the creator | legend nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Hina | the creator | of a flood or great tidal wave | tree rules | |||
| 4 | drive | past | great tidal wave | Pele | place to place over the ocean | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pele=Theme from place=Trajectory |
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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