Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 96
Na-maka-o-ka-hai went off toward Nuu-mea-lani rejoicing in the destruction of her hated enemy.
Who acts: hai · What happens: go off, hate, destroy · To what, where: Na, hated enemy
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 (hai), 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 went | obl |
| 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 | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Na | dep |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ka | punct |
| 9 | hai | hai | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 rejoicing | case |
| 13 | Nuu | Nuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rejoicing | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nuu | punct |
| 15 | mea | mea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lani | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mea | punct |
| 17 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rejoicing | compound |
| 18 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 destruction | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 destruction | det |
| 21 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rejoicing | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 enemy | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 enemy | amod |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 destruction | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | hai | Na | toward Nuu lani rejoicing in the destruction of Pele's hated enemy | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hate | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | destroy | Pele's hated enemy | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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