Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 77
They were of almost equal stature, averaging nearly six feet in height.
Who acts: ranks, equal stature · What happens: be, average · To what, where: six feet, height
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 (ranks, equal stature), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stature | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stature | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stature | case |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 equal | advmod |
| 5 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stature | amod |
| 6 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 averaging | punct |
| 8 | averaging | average | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stature | acl |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 six | advmod |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feet | nummod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 averaging | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 height | case |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 averaging | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ranks = rank | of equal stature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | average | gerund | equal stature not said here | six feet | height | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
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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