Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 43
Wave upon wave of men from Maui beat against the eight, but each time the wave was shattered and scattered and destroyed.
Who acts: you, men · What happens: wave, beat, shatter, scatter, destroy · To what, where: wave
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 (you, men), 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 | Wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 wave | case |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beat | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Maui | case |
| 7 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wave | parataxis |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 eight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eight | det |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 beat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shattered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shattered | cc |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shattered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wave | det |
| 17 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shattered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shattered | aux:pass |
| 19 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beat | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 scattered | cc |
| 21 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 shattered | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 destroyed | cc |
| 23 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 scattered | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | imperative | you not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | men from Maui | wave | against the eight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Location | |||
| 3 | shatter | past · passive | the wave | time | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scatter | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | destroy | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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