Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 178
Thus days passed by; some legends say ten days, some say a full month.
Who acts: legends, some · What happens: pass by, say · To what, where: days · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (legends, some), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 legends | det |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 month | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 month | amod |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle · passive | days | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some legends | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | some | month | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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