Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 61
According to the “Tales of a Venerable Savage” the chief said: “I am Ke-lii-kuku of Puna.
Who acts: chief · What happens: accord, say, be · To what, where: Ke lii kuku · 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 (chief), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Tales | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tales | det |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 5 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Savage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Savage | det |
| 8 | Venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Savage | amod |
| 9 | Savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Savage | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 kuku | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 kuku | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kuku | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kuku | cop |
| 18 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kuku | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ke | punct |
| 20 | lii | lii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kuku | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lii | punct |
| 22 | kuku | kuku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Puna | case |
| 24 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kuku | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chief | accord the Tales; of a Venerable Savage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the chief = chief | Ke lii kuku | of Puna | 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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