Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 59
They stretched a wire cable 1,500 feet long from wall to wall over the lake of fire.
Who acts: observations · What happens: stretch · To what, where: wire cable, wall
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (observations), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cable | det |
| 4 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cable | compound |
| 5 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obj |
| 6 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 long | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cable | amod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lake | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | observations = observation | a wire cable | wall | to wall result; over the lake of fire | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent cable=Patient to wall=Result |
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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