Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 15
There were long side-pieces almost the full length of the sled.
Who acts: long side pieces · What happens: be
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 (long side pieces), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pieces | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 side | punct |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 length | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 length | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 length | amod |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sled | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sled | det |
| 13 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 length | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | long side pieces the full length of the sled | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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