Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 9
Tall cocoanut trees bent over it.
What happens: bend · To what, where: Tall cocoanut trees, house
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: 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 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trees | amod |
| 2 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trees | compound |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trees | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle | Tall cocoanut trees not said here | house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
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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