Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 47
This was not by the present road, but along the smoother, better way, used for centuries on the south side of the crater toward the ocean.
Who acts: This · What happens: not be, use · To what, where: way, south side
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 road | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 road | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smoother | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 smoother | cc |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 smoother | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smoother | det |
| 12 | smoother | smoother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 way | advmod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smoother | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 centuries | case |
| 19 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 22 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 side | amod |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 crater | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crater | det |
| 26 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 29 ocean | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ocean | det |
| 29 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crater | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 road | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | This | by the present road but the smoother; the smoother conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | way not said here | the south side of the crater toward the ocean | century | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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