Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 15
Here kings, chiefs, and priests have come for ages to build great piles of lava rock with many ceremonies.
Who acts: priests · What happens: come, build · To what, where: kings, great piles
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 kings | advmod |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chiefs | punct |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kings | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 7 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 kings | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ages | case |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 build | mark |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | advcl |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 piles | amod |
| 15 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 build | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rock | compound |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piles | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 ceremonies | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ceremonies | amod |
| 21 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 build | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | priests | kings and chiefs not said here | for ages | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | priests not said here | great piles of lava rock | with many ceremonies | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pile=Theme with ceremony=Source |
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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