Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 36
Usually the body was thrown headlong on the sled as it was pushed over the brink of the little hill at the beginning of the slide.
What happens: throw, push, begin · To what, where: body, sled, brink, slide
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 | Usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thrown | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sled | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sled | det |
| 9 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 pushed | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pushed | aux:pass |
| 13 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thrown | advcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 brink | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brink | det |
| 16 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hill | amod |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brink | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 beginning | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beginning | det |
| 23 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hill | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 slide | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 slide | det |
| 26 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beginning | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the body | the sled | headlong, usually property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on sled=Destination | |||
| 2 | push | past · passive | body | the brink of the little hill at the beginning of the slide | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over brink=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | begin | the slide | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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