Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 49
The winds of the ocean climb the mountains of Hawaii from the northeast.
Who acts: winds · What happens: climb, wind · To what, where: mountains, northeast, ocean
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds), 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 | 2 winds | det |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ocean | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ocean | det |
| 5 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 winds | nmod |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 climb | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 northeast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 northeast | det |
| 13 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | infinitive | the winds of the ocean | the mountains of Hawaii | the northeast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent from northeast=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | wind | the ocean | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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