Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 171
Many times a sled thus turned spilt its runner on one side.
What happens: turn spilt · To what, where: runner, one side
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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sled | det |
| 4 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | spilt | spilt | ADP | _ | 6 turned | compound:prt |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 runner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 side | nummod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn spilt | past | shock's runner | one side | time | thus property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent runner=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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