Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 84
It began to bring into strong relief the uplifted heads of the cocoanut trees of a century’s growth.
Who acts: light, century · What happens: begin, bring, uplift, grow · To what, where: strong relief
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, century), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 relief | case |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 relief | amod |
| 7 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heads | det |
| 9 | uplifted | uplift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heads | amod |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 relief | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 growth | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 growth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 century | case |
| 19 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | light | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | light not said here | strong relief the uplifted heads of the cocoanut trees of a century's growth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into relief=Destination | ||||
| 3 | uplift | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | grow | a century | nom growth «process intransitive»: 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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