Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 11
They raced down green hillsides with their long coasting sleds.
Who acts: boys · What happens: race down · To what, where: green hillsides
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raced | nsubj |
| 2 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 raced | advmod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hillsides | amod |
| 5 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raced | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sleds | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sleds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleds | amod |
| 9 | coasting | coasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleds | compound |
| 10 | sleds | sled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raced | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race down | past | boys = boy | green hillsides | with boys's long coasting sleds; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hillside=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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