Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 59
The prophet asked Ke-lii-kuku about his home land.
Who acts: prophet · What happens: ask
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 (prophet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prophet | det |
| 2 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kuku | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ke | punct |
| 6 | lii | lii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kuku | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lii | punct |
| 8 | kuku | kuku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 land | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kuku | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the prophet | Ke lii kuku about KUKU's home land ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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