Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 71
Thunder reverberated in oft-repeated echoes from the sea cliffs.
What happens: reverberate, repeat · To what, where: Thunder, repeated echoes
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: 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 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | reverberated | reverberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Thunder | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 echoes | case |
| 4 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 repeated | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 oft | punct |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 echoes | amod |
| 7 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reverberated | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cliffs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cliffs | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cliffs | compound |
| 11 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 echoes | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thunder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reverberate | participle | Thunder not said here | repeated echoes from the sea cliffs | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in echo=Location | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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