Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 28
The softer parts of the petrified streams had dissolved and the surface of the land was covered with the hard fragments which remained.
Who acts: hard fragments · What happens: petrify, dissolve, cover, remain · To what, where: softer parts, surface
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 (hard fragments), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parts | det |
| 2 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 parts | amod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dissolved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 streams | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streams | det |
| 6 | petrified | petrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 streams | amod |
| 7 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 parts | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dissolved | aux |
| 9 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surface | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dissolved | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 fragments | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fragments | det |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fragments | amod |
| 21 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dissolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | petrify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | dissolve | past · perfect · passive | the softer parts of the petrified streams | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | the surface of the land | with the hard fragments | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fragment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | the hard fragments | vn exist-47.1 «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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