Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 36
From these the sunlight flashed in gold and crimson fire.
What happens: flash · To what, where: sunlight, gold
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 sunlight | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 sunlight | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sunlight | det |
| 4 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sunlight | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flashed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fire | cc |
| 9 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | compound |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sunlight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | participle | this sunlight not said here | gold and crimson fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gold=Location |
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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