Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 29
The trail which they followed led in and out among great boulders until they came to the sandy slopes of Diamond Head.
Who acts: trail · What happens: lead, come · To what, where: trail, great boulders, sandy slopes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trail), 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 trail | det |
| 2 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 led | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | aux:pass |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trail | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 led | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 out | cc |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 in | conj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 boulders | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boulders | amod |
| 12 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 led | obl |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 slopes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slopes | det |
| 18 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slopes | amod |
| 19 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Head | case |
| 21 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Head | compound |
| 22 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slopes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the trail | great boulders | fragments = fragment nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among boulder=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | the trail | the sandy slopes of Diamond Head | fragments = fragment nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to slope=Initial_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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