Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 195
On the hill where they stood were some of the lehua trees with their brilliant red blossoms.
Who acts: hills · What happens: stand · To what, where: some, hill
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 (hills), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 hill | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hill | det |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 some | cop |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 stood | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 11 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blossoms | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blossoms | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blossoms | amod |
| 17 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | hills = hill | some of the lehua trees | the hill | with hills's brilliant red blossoms | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme on hill=Destination |
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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