Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 7
Its hillsides were covered with grass which afforded the very best facilities for sliding down hill.
Who acts: grass · What happens: cover, afford, slide · To what, where: hillsides, best facilities, hill
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 (grass), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hillsides | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 grass | case |
| 6 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 afforded | nsubj |
| 8 | afforded | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grass | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 facilities | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 best | advmod |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 facilities | amod |
| 12 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 afforded | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 sliding | mark |
| 14 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 afforded | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 hill | advmod |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sliding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | island's hillsides | with grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with grass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | afford | past | grass | the best facilities | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slide | gerund | grass not said here | hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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