Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 10
Near it grew the ohia, or native apple tree, luxuriant in crimson tassel-like blossoms.
Who acts: house · What happens: grow · To what, where: ohia
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ohia | det |
| 5 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 tree | cc |
| 8 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 luxuriant | punct |
| 12 | luxuriant | luxuriant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 blossoms | case |
| 14 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blossoms | amod |
| 15 | tassel | tassel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 like | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tassel | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blossoms | amod |
| 18 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 luxuriant | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | house | the ohia | native apple tree and luxuriant in crimson like blossoms obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ohia=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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