Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 97
Living by the rough waves Of Makavia?
What happens: live, wave · To what, where: Makavia
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 | Living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 waves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waves | det |
| 4 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waves | amod |
| 5 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Living | obl |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Makavia | case |
| 7 | Makavia | Makavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waves | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | by the rough waves of Makavia | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wave=Location | |||||
| 2 | wave | Makavia | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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