Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 7
This dragon was named Pii-ka-lalau, or Pii, the one dwelling at Ka-lalau.
Who acts: Pii, one · What happens: name, one, dwell · To what, where: dragon, Ka lalau
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 (Pii, one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lalau | punct |
| 7 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 lalau | dep |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lalau | punct |
| 9 | lalau | lalau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Pii | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 12 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Pii | appos |
| 16 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 one | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 lalau | case |
| 18 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lalau | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lalau | punct |
| 20 | lalau | lalau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | this dragon | Pii xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | one | Pii | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | the one not said here | Ka lalau | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lalau=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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