Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 85
The white foam of ocean waves began to be visible along the outer reef.
Who acts: white foam · What happens: begin, be
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 (white foam), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foam | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foam | amod |
| 3 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 waves | case |
| 5 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waves | compound |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foam | nmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 visible | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 visible | cop |
| 10 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 began | xcomp |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 reef | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reef | det |
| 13 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reef | amod |
| 14 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 visible | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the white foam of ocean waves | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the white foam of ocean waves not said here | along the outer reef; visible property | tree rules |
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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