Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 171
Out in the ocean under the moving surface was a boat, its mast coming up through the waves.
Who acts: ocean, mast · What happens: move, be, come up · To what, where: boat, waves
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 (ocean, mast), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 4 ocean | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 ocean | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ocean | det |
| 4 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boat | nsubj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 surface | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 surface | det |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 surface | amod |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ocean | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boat | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mast | punct |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boat | appos |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mast | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 waves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waves | det |
| 19 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 coming | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the ocean under the moving surface | a boat | ocean's mast appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come up | gerund | ocean's mast not said here | the waves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wave=Initial_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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