Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 34
This story says that Pele had a husband, Wahioloa, who ran away from her with a sister named Pele-kumu-ka-lani, and that Pele searched the islands of the great ocean as she followed them, but never found them.
Who acts: story, Pele, Wahioloa · What happens: say, have, run away, name, search, follow · To what, where: husband, sister, islands, ka · 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 (story, Pele, Wahioloa), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 husband | det |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wahioloa | punct |
| 10 | Wahioloa | Wahioloa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Wahioloa | acl:relcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sister | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sister | det |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sister | acl |
| 21 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pele | punct |
| 23 | kumu | kumu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Pele | list |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ka | punct |
| 25 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kumu | appos |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 lani | punct |
| 27 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ka | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 searched | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 searched | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 searched | mark |
| 31 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 searched | nsubj |
| 32 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 islands | det |
| 34 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 searched | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ocean | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ocean | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ocean | amod |
| 38 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 islands | nmod |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 followed | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 followed | nsubj |
| 41 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 searched | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 followed | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 found | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 found | cc |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 found | advmod |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 searched | parataxis |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | this story | Wahioloa ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Pele | a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | Wahioloa | from Pele; with a sister; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a sister not said here | Pele kumu xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | search | past | Pele | the islands of the great ocean | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Location | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | Pele | ka | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not find | past | ka | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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