Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 36
In this story she was said to have a son Menehune and a daughter Laka.
What happens: say, have · To what, where: story, son · 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: 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 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | Menehune | Menehune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 have | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Menehune | conj |
| 15 | Laka | Laka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Menehune | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | story | this story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a son | Menehune and a daughter xcomp | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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