Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 34
Very narrow sleds (holua) with long runners were used in these races.
What happens: use · To what, where: narrow sleds, 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 narrow | advmod |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sleds | amod |
| 3 | sleds | sled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 holua | punct |
| 5 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleds | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 holua | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 runners | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 runners | amod |
| 9 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sleds | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 races | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 races | det |
| 14 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | narrow sleds with long runners | this races | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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