Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 7
According to the legends he was tall, well built, and handsome, and a great lover of the ancient games.
Who acts: love · What happens: accord, be, build
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 (love), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 legends | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legends | det |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tall | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tall | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tall | cop |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 built | advmod |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tall | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handsome | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 handsome | cc |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tall | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lover | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lover | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lover | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lover | amod |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tall | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 games | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 games | det |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 games | amod |
| 22 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lover | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | love | accord the legends; a great lover of the ancient games conj; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | love not said here | well property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | be | love not said here | tree rules |
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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