Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 75
Sometimes showers fell upon the mats arranged like funnels, filling the water calabashes afresh.
Who acts: showers · What happens: fall, arrange, fill · To what, where: mats, water calabashes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (showers), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 mats | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mats | det |
| 6 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mats | acl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 funnels | case |
| 9 | funnels | funnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arranged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filling | punct |
| 11 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 calabashes | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calabashes | compound |
| 14 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filling | obj |
| 15 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 filling | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | showers | the mats | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon mat=Location | |||
| 2 | arrange | participle | the mats not said here | like funnels | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fill | gerund | showers not said here | the water calabashes | afresh property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent calabash=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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