Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 61
Then the elder brother of Pele—Ka-moho-alii, the shark-god—called for all the family to aid Pele.
What happens: call, aid · To what, where: shark god, Pele, elder brother · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brother | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pele | case |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 alii | punct |
| 8 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 alii | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ka | punct |
| 10 | moho | moho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alii | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 moho | punct |
| 12 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 god | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 15 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 shark | punct |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alii | appos |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 god | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 family | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 family | det |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 aid | mark |
| 25 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 called | advcl |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 aid | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the shark god not said here | for all family | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for family=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | aid | to-infinitive | Pele | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Beneficiary |
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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