Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 37
Sometimes the more courageous riders would rest on hands and knees while only the very skilful dared stand upright during the swift descent.
Who acts: courageous riders · What happens: rest · To what, where: skilful dared stand, hands
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: who acts (courageous riders), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 rest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 riders | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 courageous | advmod |
| 4 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 riders | amod |
| 5 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rest | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 rest | aux |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rest | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knees | cc |
| 11 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hands | conj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 stand | mark |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stand | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 skilful | advmod |
| 16 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stand | amod |
| 17 | dared | dared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stand | amod |
| 18 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | xcomp |
| 19 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 descent | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 descent | det |
| 22 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 descent | amod |
| 23 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | would | the courageous riders | the skilful dared stand | hands and knees | during the swift descent | sometimes property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location |
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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