Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 77
Boats were shattered and the sea filled with swimming men.
Who acts: sea · What happens: shatter, fill · To what, where: Boats
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 (sea), 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 | Boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shattered | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shattered | aux:pass |
| 3 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shattered | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | compound |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shatter | past · passive | Boats | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fill | participle | the sea | with swimming men | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with man=Instrument |
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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