Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 18
This meant that they came to the place now known as Hilo Bay.
Who acts: This, Hawaiians · What happens: mean, come, know · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meant | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 known | advmod |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Bay | case |
| 12 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bay | compound |
| 13 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | This | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | the place not said here | now | as Hilo Bay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bay=Attribute |
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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