Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 43

At last, drawing themselves out to gigantic proportions, they pushed the entire heavens up to the very lofty position which they have ever since occupied.

Who acts: Islanders · What happens: draw out, push, have · To what, where: Islanders, gigantic proportions, entire heavens, lofty position

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pushed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drawing	punct
4	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	advcl
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 drawing	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 drawing	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 proportions	case
8	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proportions	amod
9	proportions	proportion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pushed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pushed	nsubj
12	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heavens	det
14	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heavens	amod
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pushed	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	21 position	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 position	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 position	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 lofty	advmod
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 position	amod
21	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushed	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 have	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 position	acl:relcl
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 occupied	advmod
26	since	since	ADV	_	27 occupied	advmod
27	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw out	gerund	Islanders = islander not said here	Islanders = islander	gigantic proportions		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to proportion=Destination
2	push	past	Islanders = islander	the entire heavens	the lofty position		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme up position=Trajectory
3	have	present	Islanders = islander	the lofty position		occupied property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 43