Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 42
The most authoritative story of the coming of Pele to Hawaii was published in the Hoku-o-ka-Pakipika (Star of the Pacific), in the story of Aukele-nui-aiku, in 1861, and in another Hawaiian paper, Ke Kuokoa, in 1864, and again in 1865.
Who acts: authoritative story, Pakipika · What happens: come, publish · To what, where: Hawaii, authoritative story, 1861
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 (authoritative story, Pakipika), 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 | 4 story | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 authoritative | advmod |
| 3 | authoritative | authoritative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 published | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coming | det |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 story | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pele | case |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 published | aux:pass |
| 13 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Pakipika | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Pakipika | det |
| 16 | Hoku | Hoku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Pakipika | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pakipika | punct |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 Pakipika | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 o | punct |
| 20 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Pakipika | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pakipika | punct |
| 22 | Pakipika | Pakipika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 published | obl:agent |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Star | punct |
| 24 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Pakipika | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Pacific | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Pacific | det |
| 27 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Star | nmod |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Star | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 story | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 story | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 story | det |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 published | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 aiku | case |
| 34 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 aiku | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Aukele | punct |
| 36 | nui | nui | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 aiku | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 nui | punct |
| 38 | aiku | aiku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 story | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 1861 | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 1861 | case |
| 41 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 published | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 1864 | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 1864 | cc |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 paper | case |
| 45 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 paper | det |
| 46 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 paper | amod |
| 47 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 1864 | nsubj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Ke | punct |
| 49 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 paper | appos |
| 50 | Kuokoa | Kuokoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Ke | flat |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 1864 | punct |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 1864 | case |
| 53 | 1864 | 1864 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 published | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 again | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 again | cc |
| 56 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 published | advmod |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 1865 | case |
| 58 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 56 again | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the authoritative story not said here | Hawaii | of Pele | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of pele=Initial_Location to hawaii=Destination | |||
| 2 | publish | past · passive | the Pakipika Hoku ka | the authoritative story | 1861 | again | in 1864 in another Hawaiian paper; the story of Aukele nui aiku conj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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