Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 194

It was not very difficult to roll the stone between the posts, but very few were able to keep the disc in the centre of the track and strike the far-distant mark.

Who acts: few · What happens: not be, roll, be, keep, strike · To what, where: stone, posts, disc, centre, distant mark

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 (few), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 difficult	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 difficult	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 difficult	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 roll	mark
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 difficult	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	obj
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 posts	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 posts	det
12	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stone	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 able	cc
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 few	advmod
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 able	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 difficult	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 disc	det
22	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 centre	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 centre	det
25	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 track	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 track	det
28	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 centre	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 strike	cc
30	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 keep	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mark	det
32	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 distant	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 far	punct
34	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mark	amod
35	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strike	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past				difficult property	tree rules
2	roll	to-infinitive		the stone	the posts		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme between post=Trajectory
3	is	past	few			able property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	few not said here	the disc	the centre of the track		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent disc=Theme in centre=Location
5	strike	infinitive	few not said here	the distant mark			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 194

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 194