Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 152
Through the Wai-luku lands dashes a swiftly flowing stream of clear, cold water, breaking through the foothills of Mt.
What happens: dash, flow, break · To what, where: flowing stream, Wai lands, foothills
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 6 lands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lands | det |
| 3 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lands | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wai | punct |
| 5 | luku | luku | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 Wai | dep |
| 6 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dashes | obl |
| 7 | dashes | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 10 flowing | advmod |
| 10 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stream | amod |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashes | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clear | punct |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stream | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 breaking | punct |
| 18 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dashes | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 foothills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foothills | det |
| 21 | foothills | foothill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breaking | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Mt | case |
| 23 | Mt | Mt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 foothills | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dashes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | present | a flowing stream of clear cold water | the Wai lands | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme through land=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | swiftly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | gerund | the foothills of Mt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foothill=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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