Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 74
Pele had struck her Paoa into the earth, dug a deep pit, and thrown up a large hill known to this day as the Puu-o-Pele (The hill of Pele).
Who acts: Pele · What happens: strike, dig, throw up, know · To what, where: Paoa, earth, deep pit, large hill
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 (Pele), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | aux |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Paoa | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Paoa | Paoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dug | punct |
| 10 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pit | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pit | amod |
| 13 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dug | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thrown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thrown | cc |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 struck | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 thrown | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hill | amod |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obj |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hill | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 known | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 Pele | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Pele | det |
| 27 | Puu | Puu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Pele | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Pele | punct |
| 29 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 Pele | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 o | punct |
| 31 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 known | obl |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 hill | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hill | det |
| 34 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Pele | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Pele | case |
| 36 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 hill | nmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 hill | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · perfect | Pele | Pele's Paoa | into the earth result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent paoa=Patient into earth=Result | |||
| 2 | dig | past | Pele not said here | a deep pit | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw up | participle | Pele not said here | a large hill | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | a large hill not said here | day | as the Puu Pele | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pele=Attribute |
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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