Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 38
Musicians, dancers, wrestlers, and boxers added to the interest.
Who acts: Musicians · What happens: add
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 (Musicians), 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 | Musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 added | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dancers | punct |
| 3 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Musicians | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrestlers | punct |
| 5 | wrestlers | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Musicians | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 added | cc |
| 8 | boxers | boxer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 added | nsubj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 interest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 interest | det |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Musicians and dancers and wrestlers | to the interest; boxers nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to interest=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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