Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 155
Around Papeete Bay are some beautiful hills, with sloping, grassy sides.
Who acts: Papeete Bay, beautiful hills · What happens: be, slope · To what, where: beautiful hills
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: who acts (Papeete Bay, beautiful hills), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 Papeete | case |
| 2 | Papeete | Papeete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bay | compound |
| 3 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hills | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hills | cop |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 hills | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hills | amod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sloping | punct |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 sloping | mark |
| 10 | sloping | slope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hills | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sides | punct |
| 12 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sides | amod |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hills | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Papeete Bay | some beautiful hills and grassy sides | grassy sides conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slope | gerund | some beautiful hills and grassy sides not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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