Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 46
The Hawaiians as a nation, even in their traditions, have never been cannibals, although their legends give many individual instances of cannibalism.
Who acts: Hawaiians, legends · What happens: have, not be, give, instance · To what, where: cannibals, many individual instances, cannibalism
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 (Hawaiians, legends), 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 Hawaiians | det |
| 2 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 nation | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nation | det |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hawaiians | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 traditions | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 traditions | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 traditions | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 traditions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Hawaiians | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hawaiians | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 cannibals | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 cannibals | cop |
| 15 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legends | nmod:poss |
| 19 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | nsubj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | conj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 instances | amod |
| 22 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 instances | amod |
| 23 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cannibalism | case |
| 25 | cannibalism | cannibalism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 instances | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Hawaiians as a nation and Hawaiians's traditions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | participle | cannibals | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | present | Hawaiians's legends | many individual instances of cannibalism | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | instance | cannibalism | nom instance «event transitive»: of=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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