Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 22
They went up to the pit of Pele, offered sacrifices, and then followed an overland path back to Hilo.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: go up, offer, follow · To what, where: overland path
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pit | det |
| 6 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Pele | case |
| 8 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sacrifices | punct |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sacrifices | amod |
| 11 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pit | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 followed | advmod |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 17 | overland | overland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 path | amod |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 followed | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Hilo | case |
| 21 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 back | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | to the pit of Pele and offered sacrifices | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | offer | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian not said here | a overland path | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
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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