Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 123

There where the surf waves began to form as the tide rolled landward each chief turned his surf board to follow the tidal pathway.

Who acts: surf waves, tide, chief · What happens: begin, form, roll, turn, follow · To what, where: surf board, tidal pathway

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surf waves, tide, chief), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 began	expl
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waves	det
4	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waves	compound
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 form	mark
8	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 rolled	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tide	det
11	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rolled	nsubj
12	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 form	advcl
13	landward	landward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rolled	xcomp
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rolled	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 board	nmod:poss
18	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 board	compound
19	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 follow	mark
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turned	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pathway	det
23	tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pathway	amod
24	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follow	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the surf waves		there		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	form	to-infinitive	the surf waves not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll	past	the tide			landward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	past	each chief	tide's surf board			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent board=Theme
5	follow	to-infinitive	each chief not said here	the tidal pathway			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pathway=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 123