Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 82
For many years, even from ancient times, they have marked the destruction of the beautiful lands of Kahuku.
What happens: mark, destroy · To what, where: tombs, beautiful lands
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 times | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 times | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 years | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 marked | aux |
| 12 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 destruction | det |
| 14 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lands | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lands | amod |
| 18 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 destruction | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kahuku | case |
| 20 | Kahuku | Kahuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · perfect · passive | tombs = tomb | year | the destruction of the beautiful lands of Kahuku obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme destruction=Attribute | |||
| 2 | destroy | the beautiful lands of Kahuku | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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