Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 188
These stones were smoothed and polished to a very high degree.
What happens: smooth, polish · To what, where: stones
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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smoothed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smoothed | aux:pass |
| 4 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 polished | cc |
| 6 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 smoothed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 degree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 degree | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 degree | amod |
| 11 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 polished | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smoothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth | past · passive | this stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | polish | participle | to a high degree | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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