Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 163
On sped the eight hundred bronzed and sinewy athletes.
What happens: speed, bronze · To what, where: hundred bronzed athletes
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: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 sped | mark |
| 2 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 athletes | det |
| 4 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 athletes | nummod |
| 6 | bronzed | bronze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 athletes | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sinewy | cc |
| 8 | sinewy | sinewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bronzed | conj |
| 9 | athletes | athlete | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sped | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | the hundred bronzed athletes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent athlete=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bronze | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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