Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 65
It may be that a prolonged season of volcanic activity discouraged sea roving.
Who acts: viking, activity discouraged sea · What happens: prolong, be, rove · To what, where: prolonged season
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (viking, activity discouraged sea), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 season | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 season | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 season | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 season | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 season | det |
| 6 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 season | amod |
| 7 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 9 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 activity | amod |
| 10 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sea | compound |
| 11 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 season | nmod |
| 13 | roving | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sea | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 season | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | may | viking | a prolonged season | of activity discouraged sea | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rove | gerund | activity discouraged sea not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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