Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 101
A fog clung fast to the hills.
What happens: cling · To what, where: fog
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fog | det |
| 2 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fog | acl |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 clung | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clung | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | a fog not said here | to the hills; fast property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hill=Co-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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