Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 42
They quickly put the palms of their hands under it, then the tips of their fingers, and it retreated farther and farther.
Who acts: Islanders, mass · What happens: put, retreat · To what, where: palms, mass
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 (Islanders, mass), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palms | det |
| 5 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 palms | nmod |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tips | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 tips | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tips | det |
| 14 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fingers | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tips | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 retreated | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 retreated | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 retreated | nsubj |
| 21 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 22 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 retreated | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 farther | cc |
| 24 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 farther | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Islanders = islander | the palms of Islanders's hands | mass | the tips of Islanders's fingers conj; quickly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palm=Theme under it=Destination | ||
| 2 | retreat | past | mass | far property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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