Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 159
“His cloud was resting on the mountains of all the islands.”
Who acts: cloud, Ka · What happens: rest, cloud · To what, where: mountains
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud, Ka), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 resting | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cloud | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resting | aux |
| 5 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resting | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 islands | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mountains | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resting | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 resting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | past · progressive | Ka's cloud | the mountains of all islands | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | cloud in a quote | Ka | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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