Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 155
A great wave of intense feeling seemed to flow over the people.
Who acts: great wave · What happens: seem, flow, wave · To what, where: intense feeling
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wave), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wave | amod |
| 3 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feeling | case |
| 5 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feeling | amod |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wave | nmod |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 flow | mark |
| 9 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flow | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a great wave of intense feeling | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | flow | to-infinitive | a great wave of intense feeling not said here | over the people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over people=Location | ||||
| 3 | wave | intense feeling | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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