Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 60
They ran wires through pulleys along this cable and dropped the best instruments they had with them straight down.
Who acts: observations · What happens: run, drop, have · To what, where: wires, pulleys, best instruments
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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 pulleys | case |
| 5 | pulleys | pulley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 cable | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cable | det |
| 8 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dropped | cc |
| 10 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 instruments | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 instruments | amod |
| 13 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dropped | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 instruments | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obl |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 down | advmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | observations = observation | wires | pulleys | along this cable | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wire=Theme through pulley=Initial_Location along cable=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | drop | past | observations = observation not said here | the best instruments | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | observations = observation | the best instruments not said here | with instruments = instrument; down property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Patient |
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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