Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 26
“Ay, there is a story which belongs to the two hills of Pele down by the sea.”
Who acts: story · What happens: be, belong down · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 belongs | nsubj |
| 9 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hills | nummod |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 belongs | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pele | case |
| 15 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hills | nmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 belongs | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belongs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a story | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | belong down in a quote | present | a story | to the two hills of Pele; by the sea | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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.
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