Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 6
Two strong young men, about six feet in stature, were hastening together along a mountain spur leading down to the harbour of Papeete.
Who acts: Two strong young men, mountain spur · What happens: hasten, lead down · To what, where: mountain spur
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 (Two strong young men, mountain spur), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hastening | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feet | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 six | advmod |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stature | case |
| 10 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hastening | aux |
| 13 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 hastening | advmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 spur | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spur | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spur | compound |
| 18 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastening | obl |
| 19 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 spur | acl |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 leading | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 harbour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 harbour | det |
| 23 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leading | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Papeete | case |
| 25 | Papeete | Papeete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 harbour | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past · progressive | Two strong young men and six feet in stature | a mountain spur | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along spur=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lead down | gerund | a mountain spur not said here | to the harbour of Papeete; down property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to harbour=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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