Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 44
Borrowing a sled from one of the chiefs she prepared to race with him.
Who acts: chief · What happens: borrow, prepare, race · To what, where: sled, chiefs
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 (chief), 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 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 one | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sled | det |
| 3 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrowing | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prepared | nsubj |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 race | mark |
| 12 | race | race | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 race | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | a sled | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past | chief | the chiefs not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | race not said to happen | to-infinitive | chief not said here | with AHI | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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