Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 66
Then she read clearly the Biblical sentences printed in the spelling-book and some of the hymns.
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: read, print · To what, where: Biblical sentences, spelling book
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 (Kapiolani), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 read | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 3 read | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sentences | det |
| 6 | Biblical | biblical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sentences | amod |
| 7 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obj |
| 8 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sentences | acl | |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 11 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 book | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 spelling | punct |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 printed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 some | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 book | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hymns | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hymns | det |
| 18 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 some | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Kapiolani | the Biblical sentences | then | clearly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Topic | ||
| 2 | participle | the Biblical sentences not said here | the spelling book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=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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