Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 165
The slides were frequently well covered with cut grass or leaves.
What happens: cover · To what, where: slides
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 slides | det |
| 2 | slides | slide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 covered | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 covered | advmod |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grass | amod |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaves | cc |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grass | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the slides | with cut grass or leaves; frequently, well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with grass=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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