Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 39
Laka was his son, who cut down trees by day which were set up again at night by the fairies.
Who acts: Laka, son, fairies · What happens: be, cut down, set up · To what, where: son, trees, day
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 (Laka, son, fairies), 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 | Laka | Laka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cut | nsubj |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | aux:pass |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 day | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 fairies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fairies | det |
| 21 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Laka | Laka's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut down | past | Laka's son | trees | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | |||
| 3 | set up | past · passive | the fairies | day | again; night | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
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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