Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 41
One day the chiefs were sporting on the hillsides around a plain where a multitude of people could see and applaud.
Who acts: chiefs, multitude · What happens: sport, see, applaud · To what, where: hillsides
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, multitude), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sporting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sporting | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sporting | aux |
| 6 | sporting | sport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hillsides | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hillsides | det |
| 9 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sporting | obl |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 plain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plain | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sporting | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 see | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 multitude | det |
| 15 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitude | nmod |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 plain | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 applaud | cc |
| 21 | applaud | applaud | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sporting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sport | past · progressive | the chiefs | the hillsides | day | around a plain | tree rules | ||
| 2 | see | could | a multitude of people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | applaud | infinitive | a multitude of people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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