Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 158
Long sticks were placed lengthwise over these runners and fastened tightly to cross pieces.
What happens: place, fasten, cross · To what, where: Long sticks, runners, pieces
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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sticks | amod |
| 2 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | lengthwise | lengthwise | ADV | _ | 4 placed | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 runners | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 runners | det |
| 8 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fastened | cc |
| 10 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | conj |
| 11 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 10 fastened | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cross | mark |
| 13 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fastened | advcl |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cross | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Long sticks | this runners | lengthwise property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over runner=Destination | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | tightly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | pieces | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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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