Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 56
Passing out of sight over the waters was breaking through the wall dividing one world from another.
Who acts: Passing · What happens: pass out, break, divide · To what, where: sight, waters, wall, one world
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passing), 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 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 breaking | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Passing | obl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 waters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waters | det |
| 7 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Passing | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 breaking | aux |
| 9 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breaking | obl |
| 13 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 breaking | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 world | nummod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dividing | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 dividing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass out | gerund | sight | the waters | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past · progressive | Passing | the wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | divide | gerund | Passing not said here | one world | from another | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent world=Patient from another=Co-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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