Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 163
The rider with the longer sled was content to push his sled rapidly a few feet and then dash down the hillside.
Who acts: rider · What happens: be, push, dash down · To what, where: sled, hillside
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 (rider), 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 rider | det |
| 2 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 content | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sled | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sled | det |
| 5 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sled | amod |
| 6 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rider | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 content | cop |
| 8 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 push | mark |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 content | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sled | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 push | obj |
| 13 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 10 push | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feet | amod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 push | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dash | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 dash | advmod |
| 19 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 push | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 dash | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hillside | det |
| 22 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dash | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rider with the longer sled | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | the rider with the longer sled not said here | rider's sled | a few feet obl:unmarked; rapidly property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme | |||
| 3 | dash down | infinitive | the rider with the longer sled not said here | the hillside | then | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hillside=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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