Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 13
They were fastened together with a number of crosspieces almost the full length of the runners.
What happens: fasten · To what, where: Runners
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: 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 fastened | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | aux:pass |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 fastened | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 crosspieces | case |
| 9 | crosspieces | crosspiece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 length | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 length | det |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 length | amod |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crosspieces | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 runners | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 runners | det |
| 16 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 length | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | Runners = runner | with a number of crosspieces the full length of the runners; together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with number=Co-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 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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