Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 46
He built a new coral rock fort, 300 × 400 feet dimensions, with walls twelve feet high and twenty feet thick.
Who acts: Kauai · What happens: build · To what, where: new coral rock fort
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kauai), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fort | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fort | amod |
| 5 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fort | amod |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fort | compound |
| 7 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 300 | punct |
| 9 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 dimensions | nummod |
| 10 | × | × | SYM | _ | 9 300 | dep |
| 11 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 feet | nummod |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dimensions | compound |
| 13 | dimensions | dimension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fort | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walls | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 walls | case |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | parataxis |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 high | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walls | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thick | cc |
| 21 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 feet | nummod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 high | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Kauai | a new coral rock fort 300 feet dimensions | walls parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product |
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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