Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 93
Na-maka-o-ka-hai tore the body of Pele and broke her lava bones into great pieces which lie to this day along the seacoast of the district called Kahiki-nui.
Who acts: body, great pieces · What happens: break, lie, call · To what, where: lava bones, great pieces, seacoast, district · 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 (body, great pieces), 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 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Na | punct |
| 3 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Na | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tore | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 tore | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 o | punct |
| 7 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 tore | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ka | punct |
| 9 | hai | hai | X | _ | 10 tore | compound |
| 10 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pele | case |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tore | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bones | compound |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broke | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pieces | amod |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broke | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lie | nsubj |
| 24 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lie | obl |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 seacoast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seacoast | det |
| 30 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lie | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 district | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 district | det |
| 33 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seacoast | nmod |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 district | acl |
| 35 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 nui | punct |
| 37 | nui | nui | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 Kahiki | dep |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the body of Pele | body's lava bones | into great pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bone=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 2 | lie | present | great pieces | the seacoast of the district | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along seacoast=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the district not said here | Kahiki xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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