Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 5
These dragons had come, according to the legends, to the Hawaiian Islands from the far-away lands of Kuai-he-lani, as attendants on the first young chief Kahanai-a-ke-Akua (The-boy-brought-up-by-the-gods).
Who acts: dragons, dragon · What happens: come, accord, lani, bring up · To what, where: Hawaiian Islands, boy
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 (dragons, dragon), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 dragons | det |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 legends | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 legends | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 legends | det |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Islands | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Islands | det |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 lands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lands | det |
| 17 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 away | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 19 | away | away | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lands | amod |
| 20 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Islands | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kuai | case |
| 22 | Kuai | Kuai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lands | nmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 lani | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lani | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 lani | punct |
| 26 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Kuai | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 attendants | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 attendants | case |
| 29 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 young | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 young | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 young | amod |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 34 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Kahanai | amod |
| 35 | Kahanai | Kahanai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 young | obl |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 ke | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 ke | det |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 a | punct |
| 39 | ke | ke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Kahanai | appos |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Akua | punct |
| 41 | Akua | Akua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 ke | appos |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 boy | punct |
| 43 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 boy | det |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 The | punct |
| 45 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Akua | appos |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 boy | punct |
| 47 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 boy | acl |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 up | punct |
| 49 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 brought | compound:prt |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 brought | punct |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 gods | case |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 by | punct |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 gods | det |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 the | punct |
| 55 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 brought | obl |
| 56 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 boy | punct |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | this dragons | the Hawaiian Islands from the away lands of Kuai | accord the legends; as attendants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lani | dragon | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring up | participle | the boy not said here | by the gods; up compound:prt | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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