Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 46
The house for dancing was long and was beautifully draped with mats of all kinds.
Who acts: house · What happens: be, drape
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 dancing | case |
| 4 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 draped | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 draped | aux:pass |
| 9 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 10 draped | advmod |
| 10 | draped | drape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 long | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mats | case |
| 12 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 draped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kinds | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kinds | det |
| 15 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mats | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house for dancing | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drape | past · passive | the house for dancing not said here | with mats of all kinds; beautifully property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with mat=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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