Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 131
Ordinarily many surf waves passed from beneath the surf-riders before they could complete the long distance over the sea.
Who acts: waves · What happens: pass, complete · To what, where: many surf waves, surf riders, long distance, sea
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 (waves), 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 | Ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 3 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waves | compound |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 waves | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 riders | case |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 riders | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 riders | det |
| 9 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riders | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 surf | punct |
| 11 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 complete | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 complete | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 complete | aux |
| 15 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 passed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 distance | amod |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 complete | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 complete | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | many surf waves not said here | the surf riders | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rider=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | complete | could | waves = wave | the long distance | the sea | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality |
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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