Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 27

According to some legends the skies pressed so closely and so heavily upon the earth that when the plants began to grow all the leaves were necessarily flat.

Who acts: plants, leaves · What happens: accord, press, begin, grow, be · To what, where: skies, earth

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plants, leaves), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 legends	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 legends	det
4	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skies	det
6	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 legends	conj
7	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 skies	acl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 closely	advmod
9	closely	closely	ADV	_	7 pressed	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 earth	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 heavily	advmod
12	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	15 earth	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legends	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 began	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 began	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 plants	det
19	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 earth	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grow	mark
22	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 leaves	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leaves	det
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flat	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flat	cop
27	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	28 flat	advmod
28	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grow	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 legends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	press	participle		the skies not said here	closely property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the plants	the earth		tree rules
4	grow	to-infinitive	the plants not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	all leaves		flat, necessarily 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 27