Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 33
Wherever a hillside was covered with grass and the ground properly sloping, holua races were carried on.
What happens: cover, slope, carry on · To what, where: hillside, holua races
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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 covered | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hillside | det |
| 3 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ground | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grass | conj |
| 11 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 12 sloping | advmod |
| 12 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 covered | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 races | punct |
| 14 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 races | compound |
| 15 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | aux:pass |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sloping | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | a hillside | with grass and the ground; wherever property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with grass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slope | gerund | properly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry on | past · passive | holua races | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=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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