Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 38
Pueo was a great owl in which dwelt one of the most powerful of Pii’s ancestors.
Who acts: Pueo, great owl · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: great owl, one
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: who acts (Pueo, great owl), 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 | Pueo | Pueo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 owl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 owl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 owl | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owl | amod |
| 5 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 owl | acl:relcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dwelt | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 powerful | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powerful | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 powerful | advmod |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ancestors | case |
| 15 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Pii | case |
| 17 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 powerful | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Pueo | a great owl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | a great owl | one | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme one=Location |
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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