Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 186
The larger maika-stones were frequently two inches thick and a foot and a half in circumference.
Who acts: larger stones · What happens: be
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 (larger stones), 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 | 5 stones | det |
| 2 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 stones | amod |
| 3 | maika | maika | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 larger | dep |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 larger | punct |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thick | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thick | cop |
| 7 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 10 thick | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 inches | nummod |
| 9 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 foot | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thick | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 half | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 half | det |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 thick | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 circumference | case |
| 18 | circumference | circumference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the larger stones | two inches obl:unmarked; a foot conj; a half in circumference conj; frequently, thick property | tree rules |
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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