Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 17
When Hawaiians, who had been ill, recovered, they frequently vowed to make a “journey of health.”
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: be, recover, vow, make, journey · To what, where: journey, health
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 (Hawaiians), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 ill | mark |
| 2 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ill | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ill | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 ill | cop |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vowed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 recovered | punct |
| 9 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 ill | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 vowed | nsubj |
| 12 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 13 vowed | advmod |
| 13 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 vowed | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 journey | det |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 journey | punct |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 health | case |
| 20 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 journey | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Hawaiians | who nsubj; ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recover | participle | Hawaiians not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | vow | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | frequently property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hawaiians = hawaiian not said here | a journey of health | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | ||||
| 5 | journey in a quote | health | nom journey «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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