Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 32
They both excelled in the sports and athletic feats which were the chief occupation of those days.
What happens: excel, be · To what, where: chiefs, sports, chief occupation
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 excelled | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 excelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | excelled | excel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sports | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sports | det |
| 6 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 excelled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feats | cc |
| 8 | athletic | athletic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feats | amod |
| 9 | feats | feat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sports | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 occupation | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 occupation | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 occupation | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 occupation | amod |
| 14 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excelled | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 days | det |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 occupation | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 excelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excel | participle · passive | chiefs = chief | the sports and athletic feats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the chief occupation | day | which nsubj | tree rules |
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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