Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 60
There were hillsides where sled-riders had opportunity for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength.
Who acts: hillsides, sled riders · What happens: be, have, exercise · To what, where: opportunity, atom
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 (hillsides, sled riders), 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 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 had | advmod |
| 5 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riders | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sled | punct |
| 7 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hillsides | advcl |
| 9 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 exercise | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 exercise | det |
| 12 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opportunity | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 atom | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 atom | det |
| 15 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exercise | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 skill | case |
| 17 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atom | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strength | cc |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skill | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | hillsides | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | sled riders | opportunity | for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | |||
| 3 | exercise | every atom of skill and strength | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=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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