Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 23
It was an ill omen if for any reason they went back by the same path.
Who acts: path, Hawaiians · What happens: be, go back · To what, where: ill omen, reason
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 (path, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 omen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 omen | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 omen | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 omen | amod |
| 5 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 reason | mark |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 reason | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 reason | det |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 omen | acl:relcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reason | acl:relcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 path | amod |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 omen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | path | a ill omen | any reason acl:relcl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go back | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | any reason not said here | by the same path | tree rules |
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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