Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 25

It was over this arid plain dotted here and there by cocoanut trees and across a few streams bordered by taro patches that the eight famous chiefs picked their way.

Who acts: luxuriance, eight famous chiefs · What happens: be, dot, border, pick · To what, where: arid plain, few streams, taro patches

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luxuriance, eight famous chiefs), 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	6 plain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	cop
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 plain	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plain	det
5	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plain	amod
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	dotted	dot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 plain	acl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dotted	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 here	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trees	compound
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dotted	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 streams	cc
15	across	across	ADP	_	18 streams	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 streams	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 streams	amod
18	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trees	conj
19	bordered	border	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 streams	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 patches	case
21	taro	taro	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 patches	compound
22	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bordered	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 picked	obl:unmarked
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chiefs	det
25	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 chiefs	nummod
26	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chiefs	amod
27	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 picked	nsubj
28	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 patches	acl:relcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 picked	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	luxuriance		this arid plain		tree rules
2	dot	participle		this arid plain not said here	here; there	by cocoanut trees and a few streams	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	border	participle		a few streams not said here		by taro patches	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	pick	past	the eight famous chiefs	taro patches		chiefs's way obj	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 25

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 25