Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 1
Ohia-lehua [5] is the native name for a tree which abounds in Puna, the region of the volcanic home of the goddess Pele.
Who acts: Ohia lehua, tree · What happens: be, abound · To what, where: native name, Puna
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ohia lehua, tree), 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 | Ohia | Ohia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lehua | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ohia | punct |
| 3 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nsubj |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 5 | punct |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 lehua | appos |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 5 | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 abounds | nsubj |
| 15 | abounds | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Puna | case |
| 17 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 abounds | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 region | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Puna | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 home | det |
| 23 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 home | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 region | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 goddess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 goddess | det |
| 27 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 home | nmod |
| 28 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 goddess | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ohia lehua | the native name | for a tree | tree rules | |||
| 2 | abound | present | a tree | Puna | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in puna=Location |
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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