Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 52
Waterfalls hundreds of feet in height shake the falling streams into clouds of spray.
Who acts: Waterfalls hundreds · What happens: shake, cloud · To what, where: falling streams, spray
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 (Waterfalls hundreds), 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 | Waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hundreds | compound |
| 2 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shake | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 feet | case |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hundreds | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 height | case |
| 6 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obl |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 streams | det |
| 9 | falling | falling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 streams | compound |
| 10 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shake | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 clouds | case |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shake | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spray | case |
| 14 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clouds | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | infinitive | Waterfalls hundreds of feet | the falling streams | into clouds of spray; in height | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent stream=Patient in height=Topic into cloud=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cloud | spray | nom cloud «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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