Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 89

Na-maka-o-ka-hai saw enduring clouds day after day rising with the colors of the dark dense smoke of the underworld, and knew that her sister was still living.

Who acts: Na, sister, underworld · What happens: see, endure, rise, know, live, smoke · To what, where: clouds · 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: who acts (Na, sister, underworld), 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 saw	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	7 ka	appos
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	enduring	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 saw	xcomp
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 enduring	obj
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enduring	obl:unmarked
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 day	case
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
16	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 enduring	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 colors	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 colors	det
19	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rising	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 smoke	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smoke	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	amod
23	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	amod
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 colors	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 underworld	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 underworld	det
27	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smoke	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knew	cc
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 living	mark
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sister	nmod:poss
33	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 living	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 living	aux
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 living	advmod
36	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 knew	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Na				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	endure	gerund	Na not said here	clouds	day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cloud=Circumstance
3	rise	gerund	Na not said here			with the colors of the dark dense smoke of the underworld	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	live	past · progressive	place's sister		still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	smoke		the underworld				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 89

The tree

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 89