Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 64
There Ka-moho-alii provided them with the great boat Honua-i-a-kea (The great spread-out world) and carried them away to distant islands.
Who acts: Ka moho alii, i · What happens: provide, kea, carry away · To what, where: ka, distant 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 (Ka moho alii, i), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 provided | expl |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 alii | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ka | punct |
| 4 | moho | moho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alii | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 moho | punct |
| 6 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provided | nsubj |
| 7 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 provided | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provided | obl |
| 13 | Honua | Honua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 boat | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 kea | punct |
| 15 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kea | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 kea | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kea | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Honua | appos |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 world | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 23 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 out | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 out | punct |
| 25 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 world | compound |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kea | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 world | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 carried | cc |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 provided | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 carried | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 islands | case |
| 33 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 islands | amod |
| 34 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carried | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | Ka moho alii | ka | there | with the great boat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with boat=Theme | ||
| 2 | kea | i | the great out world appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry away | past | Ka moho alii not said here | ka | distant islands | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to island=Destination |
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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