Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 83
It glistened over the black beds of pa-hoe-hoe, or smooth, shining lava.
Who acts: light · What happens: glisten, shine · To what, where: black beds, lava
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 (light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glistened | nsubj |
| 2 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 beds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beds | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beds | amod |
| 6 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glistened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hoe | case |
| 8 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoe | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pa | punct |
| 10 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoe | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoe | punct |
| 12 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beds | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smooth | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 smooth | cc |
| 15 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glistened | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shining | punct |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 smooth | advcl |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shining | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glistened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | past | light | the black beds of pa hoe hoe | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | light not said here | lava | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=Theme |
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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