Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 14
Hopoe was very graceful and knew all the dances of the ancient people.
Who acts: Hopoe · What happens: be, know, dance · To what, where: dances, ancient people
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hopoe), 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 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 graceful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 graceful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 graceful | advmod |
| 4 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knew | cc |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 graceful | conj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 dances | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dances | det |
| 9 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knew | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dances | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 graceful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hopoe | graceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Hopoe not said here | all dances of the ancient people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | the ancient people | nom dance «communication 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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