Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 94
The masses of broken lava are called Na-iwi-o-Pele (The bones of Pele).
What happens: break, call · To what, where: masses · 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 masses | det |
| 2 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lava | case |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lava | amod |
| 5 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 masses | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 iwi | punct |
| 10 | iwi | iwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Na | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pele | punct |
| 12 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 Pele | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 o | punct |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 iwi | appos |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 bones | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bones | det |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Pele | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pele | case |
| 19 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bones | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 bones | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the masses of broken lava | Na xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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