Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 33
The visitors from Kauai entered heartily into the sports of the people and after a time climbed some lava hills and began holua races.
Who acts: visitors, people · What happens: enter, climb, begin, sport · To what, where: sports, lava hills, holua races
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 (visitors, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 visitors | det |
| 2 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Kauai | case |
| 4 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 visitors | nmod |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 5 entered | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sports | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sports | det |
| 9 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sports | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 hills | det |
| 19 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hills | compound |
| 20 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 climbed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 climbed | conj |
| 23 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 races | compound |
| 24 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 began | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the visitors from Kauai | the sports of the people | heartily property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sport=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | climb | past | the visitors from Kauai not said here | some lava hills | time | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the visitors from Kauai not said here | holua races | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sport | the people | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=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 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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