Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 2
They were named Koa and Kau.
What happens: name · To what, where: dwellers
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Koa | Koa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Kau | cc |
| 6 | Kau | Kau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Koa | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | dwellers = dweller | Koa and Kau xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/6/2/