Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 187
The ordinary stone used by most of the chiefs was an inch thick and about ten inches in circumference.
Who acts: ordinary stone · What happens: use, be · To what, where: ordinary stone
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 (ordinary stone), 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 | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thick | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stone | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 most | case |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 used | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chiefs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 most | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thick | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 inch | det |
| 12 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inches | cc |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 ten | advmod |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 inches | nummod |
| 17 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thick | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 circumference | case |
| 19 | circumference | circumference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inches | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the ordinary stone not said here | by most of the chiefs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ordinary stone | a inch obl:unmarked; ten inches in circumference conj; 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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