Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 242
Many were the adventures in ghost-land.
What happens: be · To what, where: Many adventures, ghost land
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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 adventures | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adventures | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 adventures | det |
| 4 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ghost | punct |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adventures | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adventures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Many adventures | ghost land | tree rules |
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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