Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 177
The parents were gone, the people had disappeared, the houses had all decayed, and the land was covered with a forest.
Who acts: parents, people · What happens: be, disappear, decay, cover · To what, where: houses, land
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 (parents, people), 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 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disappeared | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disappeared | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disappeared | aux |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 decayed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 houses | det |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 decayed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 decayed | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 decayed | advmod |
| 15 | decayed | decay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 disappeared | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 covered | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 covered | aux:pass |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 covered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parents | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | decay | past · perfect · passive | the houses | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | the land | with a forest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=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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