Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 105
Perhaps the misty mountains concealed the sun until the forenoon was far spent.
Who acts: misty mountains · What happens: conceal, spend · To what, where: sun, forenoon
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misty mountains), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 concealed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountains | det |
| 3 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mountains | amod |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 concealed | nsubj |
| 5 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | obj |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 spent | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forenoon | det |
| 10 | forenoon | forenoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spent | aux:pass |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 spent | advmod |
| 13 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concealed | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | the misty mountains | the sun | perhaps property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | |||
| 2 | spend | past · passive | the forenoon | far property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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