Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 28

According to other legends the plants had to push up the clouds a little, and thus the leaves flattened out into larger surface, so that they could better drive the skies back.

Who acts: plants · What happens: accord, have, push up, flatten out, drive back · To what, where: clouds, leaves, larger surface, skies

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), 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	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legends	amod
4	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plants	det
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 push	mark
9	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 push	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clouds	det
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 push	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clouds	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaves	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leaves	cc
17	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 leaves	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 leaves	det
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	parataxis
20	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 leaves	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 flattened	compound:prt
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 surface	case
23	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 surface	amod
24	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flattened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drive	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 drive	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drive	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 drive	aux
30	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 drive	advmod
31	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flattened	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 skies	det
33	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drive	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	31 drive	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the plants			accord other legends; the leaves parataxis	tree rules
3	push up	to-infinitive	the plants not said here	the clouds			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
4	flatten out	participle		the leaves not said here	larger surface		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	drive back	could	plants = plant	the skies		well property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sky=Trajectory

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 28

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 28