Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 41
His body was splendidly marked by the tattoo-bones, and now well oiled shone and sparkled in the last rays of the setting sun.
Who acts: tattoo bones · What happens: mark, shine, sparkle, ray · To what, where: body, last rays, setting sun.
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 (tattoo bones), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marked | aux:pass |
| 4 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 5 marked | advmod |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 bones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bones | det |
| 8 | tattoo | tattoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bones | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tattoo | punct |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 marked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shone | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 shone | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 oiled | advmod |
| 15 | oiled | oil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shone | aux:pass |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marked | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sparkled | cc |
| 18 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shone | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rays | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rays | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rays | amod |
| 22 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sparkled | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sun. | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun. | det |
| 25 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sun. | compound |
| 26 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rays | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past · passive | the tattoo bones | Maui's body | splendidly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | shine | participle · passive | the tattoo bones not said here | now | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | the tattoo bones not said here | the last rays of the setting sun. | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location | ||||
| 4 | ray | the setting sun. | nom ray «phenomenon 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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