Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 20
His home was near the “green precipiced paradise” of Hawaiian legend, the place where the water of life gave forth healing even for the dead.
Who acts: home, water · What happens: precipice, be, give, heal · To what, where: green precipiced paradise
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, water), 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 home | nmod:poss |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paradise | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 paradise | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 paradise | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paradise | det |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 paradise | punct |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paradise | amod |
| 8 | precipiced | precipice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 paradise | amod |
| 9 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 paradise | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legend | case |
| 12 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legend | amod |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paradise | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 place | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paradise | conj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | nmod |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 gave | advmod |
| 24 | healing | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 gave | xcomp |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 dead | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 dead | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dead | det |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 healing | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 paradise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precipice in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | first's home | the green precipiced paradise and the place | of Hawaiian legend; the place conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | the water of life | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heal | gerund | the water of life not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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