Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 82
Ke-lii-kuku caught a long vine, hurled it over a tree, and hung himself.
Who acts: Ke lii kuku · What happens: catch, hurl, hang · To what, where: long vine, land, tree, KUKU
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 (Ke lii kuku), 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 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kuku | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ke | punct |
| 3 | lii | lii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kuku | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 lii | punct |
| 5 | kuku | kuku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vine | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vine | amod |
| 9 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurled | punct |
| 11 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hurled | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hung | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hung | cc |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hung | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Ke lii kuku | a long vine | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurl | past | Ke lii kuku not said here | land | a tree | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over tree=Destination | |||
| 3 | hang | past | Ke lii kuku not said here | KUKU | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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