Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 76
The entire “mele,” or song, stretches out to about six hundred lines.
Who acts: entire mele · What happens: stretch out · To what, where: hundred lines
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entire mele), 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 | 4 mele | det |
| 2 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mele | amod |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mele | punct |
| 4 | mele | mele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretches | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mele | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mele | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 song | cc |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mele | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mele | punct |
| 10 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretches | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 lines | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 hundred | advmod |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 lines | nummod |
| 16 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretches | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | present | the entire mele or song | hundred lines | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to line=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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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