Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 72
Na-maka-o-ka-hai went back to her lookout mountain.
Who acts: Na · What happens: go back
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 (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 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Na | punct |
| 3 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Na | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ka | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 ka | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 o | punct |
| 7 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Na | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hai | punct |
| 9 | hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Na | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mountain | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mountain | compound |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Na and hai | to hai's lookout mountain result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mountain=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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