Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 8
About half way between the city of Hilo and the volcano Kilauea, there stood for many, many years an old ohia tree.
What happens: stand · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 way | det:predet |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hilo | case |
| 8 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 volcano | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 volcano | det |
| 11 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | conj |
| 12 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 volcano | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stood | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 23 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 years | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | half way between the city of Hilo and the volcano | there | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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