Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 145
The boards and their riders were thrown against and over one another.
What happens: throw · To what, where: boards
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boards | det |
| 2 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 riders | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 riders | nmod:poss |
| 5 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 boards | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thrown | aux:pass |
| 7 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 thrown | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thrown | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | fixed |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the boards and boards's riders | one conj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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