Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 122
He flew straight a long time until he found a strange land with a deep pit lined with trees and wonderful plants.
Who acts: traveller · What happens: fly, find, line · To what, where: strange land, deep pit
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pit | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pit | amod |
| 16 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 17 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pit | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lined | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plants | cc |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plants | amod |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 trees | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | traveller | time | straight property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | traveller | a strange land | with a deep pit | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | |||
| 3 | line | participle | a deep pit not said here | with trees and wonderful plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme |
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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