Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 19
There they bathed by the beautiful little Coconut Island, fished up by the demi-god Maui.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: bath, fish up
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 bathed | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bathed | nsubj |
| 3 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Island | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Island | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Island | amod |
| 8 | Coconut | Coconut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Island | compound |
| 9 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bathed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fished | punct |
| 11 | fished | fish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bathed | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fished | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 god | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 15 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 demi | punct |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fished | obl |
| 18 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 god | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | there | by the beautiful little Coconut Island | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fish up | participle | Hawaiians = hawaiian not said here | by the demi god | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by god=Location |
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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