Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 129
There were built up on the beach two hills of black sand, about 400 feet in height.
What happens: build up · To what, where: two hills, beach
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 built | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 built | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hills | nummod |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sand | case |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sand | amod |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hills | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feet | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 400 | advmod |
| 15 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hills | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 height | case |
| 18 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build up | past · passive | two hills of black sand and 400 feet in height | the beach; there | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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