Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 135
Then, balancing the board on the crest of the largest inrolling waves, leaped to their feet, and standing upright guided the board by the swaying of their bodies, adjusting themselves to the changing forces of the surf.
What happens: balance, leap, stand, guide, adjust · To what, where: board, crest, largest inrolling waves, feet, boards, changing forces
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 balancing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 balancing | punct |
| 3 | balancing | balance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 board | det |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 balancing | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 crest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crest | det |
| 8 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 balancing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 waves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 11 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 waves | amod |
| 12 | inrolling | inrolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waves | compound |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaped | punct |
| 15 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waves | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leaped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 guided | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 guided | cc |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 guided | nsubj |
| 22 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 21 standing | advmod |
| 23 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 balancing | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 board | det |
| 25 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 guided | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 swaying | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 swaying | det |
| 28 | swaying | swaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 guided | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bodies | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 swaying | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 adjusting | punct |
| 33 | adjusting | adjust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 guided | advcl |
| 34 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 adjusting | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 forces | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 forces | det |
| 37 | changing | changing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 forces | compound |
| 38 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 adjusting | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 surf | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 surf | det |
| 41 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 forces | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 balancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | gerund | the board | the crest of the largest inrolling waves | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent board=Theme on crest=Location | |||
| 2 | leap | participle | the largest inrolling waves not said here | waves's feet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | guide | past | the board | by the swaying of waves's bodies | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent board=Theme by swaying=Destination | ||||
| 5 | adjust | gerund | boards = board | to the changing forces of the surf goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to force=Goal |
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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