Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 79
She was not dead, but she left Kauai and went to Oahu to a place near Honolulu, to Moanalua, a beautiful suburb.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: not be, leave, go · To what, where: Kauai, Oahu
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dead | advmod |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | parataxis |
| 9 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Oahu | case |
| 13 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 Honolulu | case |
| 18 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moanalua | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Moanalua | case |
| 21 | Moanalua | Moanalua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 suburb | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 suburb | det |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 suburb | amod |
| 25 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Moanalua | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Pele | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Pele | Kauai | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kauai=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Pele not said here | Oahu | to a place near Honolulu; to Moanalua | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to oahu=Initial_Location to place=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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