Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 82
Within is the land—outside is the sun, Indistinct are the sun and the land when approaching.
Who acts: Within, Indistinct · What happens: be, approach · To what, where: land, sun
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 (Within, Indistinct), 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 | Within | within | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sun | punct |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 sun | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sun | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sun | punct |
| 11 | Indistinct | Indistinct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sun | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sun | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sun | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 land | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sun | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 approaching | advmod |
| 19 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sun | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Within | the land and the sun and the sun and the land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Within not said here | the sun and the sun and the land | the land conj; outside property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Indistinct | the sun | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | Within not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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