Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 22
His legs were as large as trees, and his weight was such that wherever he stepped there were great holes in the ground.”
Who acts: legs, weight, Pii, great holes · What happens: be, step
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, weight, Pii, great holes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 legs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 large | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 such | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 such | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 weight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 such | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 such | cop |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 large | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | mark |
| 15 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stepped | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stepped | nsubj |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 such | advcl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stepped | conj |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 holes | amod |
| 21 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 holes | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 large | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pii's legs | as trees; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pii's weight | such property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | step | past | Pii | wherever property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | great holes in the ground | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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