Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 56
Pele loved the holua-coasting—the race of sleds, long and narrow, down sloping, grassy hillsides.
Who acts: Pele, sleds · What happens: love, slope, race · To what, where: holua coasting, grassy hillsides
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, sleds), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coasting | det |
| 4 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coasting | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 holua | punct |
| 6 | coasting | coasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 race | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sleds | case |
| 11 | sleds | sled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 race | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 narrow | cc |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 long | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sloping | punct |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 sloping | advmod |
| 18 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 loved | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hillsides | punct |
| 20 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hillsides | amod |
| 21 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sloping | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Pele | the holua coasting | the race of sleds obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coasting=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | slope | gerund | Pele not said here | grassy hillsides | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | race | sleds | nom race «event 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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