Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 50
It is, however, interesting to note that this is the fact in the legends, and that it was in a conflict between the two sisters that Na-maka-o-ka-hai drove Pele to the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: It, this, ilo, Na · What happens: be, note, drive · To what, where: fact, legends, conflict, two sisters, Hawaiian Islands
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 (It, this, ilo, Na), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 interesting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 interesting | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 note | mark |
| 8 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 interesting | csubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fact | mark |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fact | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fact | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fact | det |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 note | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 legends | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 legends | det |
| 16 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fact | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 conflict | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 conflict | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 conflict | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 conflict | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 conflict | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 conflict | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 conflict | det |
| 24 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fact | parataxis |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 sisters | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sisters | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 sisters | nummod |
| 28 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 conflict | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 drove | nsubj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Na | punct |
| 32 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 Na | flat |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ka | punct |
| 34 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 36 ka | case |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 o | punct |
| 36 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Na | appos |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 hai | punct |
| 38 | hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ka | appos |
| 39 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 40 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 drove | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Islands | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Islands | det |
| 43 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Islands | compound |
| 44 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 drove | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | however, interesting property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | note | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | the fact | the legends | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | ilo | a conflict | between the two sisters | tree rules | |||
| 5 | drive | past | Na | the two sisters | the Hawaiian Islands | Pele obj | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pele=Theme to island=Trajectory |
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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