Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 54
Clear and beautiful, Like a mat spread out.
What happens: spread out · To what, where: mat
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: 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 | Clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beautiful | cc |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Clear | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mat | punct |
| 5 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 7 mat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mat | det |
| 7 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clear | obl |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mat | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 spread | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | participle | a mat not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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