Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 144
The chiefs looked over the sandy isthmus lying between the two great Maui mountains—Mt.
Who acts: chiefs, sandy isthmus · What happens: look, lie · To what, where: two great Maui mountains
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, sandy isthmus), 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 | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 isthmus | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 isthmus | det |
| 6 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 isthmus | amod |
| 7 | isthmus | isthmus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 isthmus | acl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 mountains | nummod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountains | amod |
| 13 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | compound |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lying | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mt | punct |
| 16 | Mt | Mt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the chiefs | over the sandy isthmus | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over isthmus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the sandy isthmus not said here | the two great Maui mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between mountain=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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