Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 5
Here honey-loving birds and bees find their best feeding-places.
Who acts: loving birds · What happens: find · To what, where: best feeding places
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 (loving birds), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 birds | advmod |
| 2 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loving | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 honey | punct |
| 4 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 birds | amod |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bees | cc |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 birds | conj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 places | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 places | amod |
| 11 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 places | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 feeding | punct |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | loving birds and bees | birds's best feeding places | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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