Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 11
They were seven, twelve, or even eighteen feet long.
Who acts: Runners · What happens: be · To what, where: seven, eighteen feet
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Runners), 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 | 3 seven | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seven | cop |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 twelve | punct |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 seven | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 long | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 eighteen | advmod |
| 9 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 feet | nummod |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seven | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Runners = runner | seven | twelve conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Runners = runner not said here | eighteen feet | 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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