Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 36
The sunlight had almost passed away and the house lay in quiet gloom.
Who acts: house · What happens: pass away, lie · To what, where: sunlight, quiet gloom
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sunlight | det |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gloom | case |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gloom | amod |
| 13 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | the sunlight | almost, away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the house | quiet gloom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gloom=Location |
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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