Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 2
The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves around it a web of thoughts of things which might have been.
Who acts: imagination · What happens: love, weave, think · To what, where: truth, nature, web, history, things
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (imagination), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 imagination | det |
| 2 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loves | nsubj |
| 3 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loves | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 nature | case |
| 7 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loves | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 history | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 history | case |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nature | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weaves | cc |
| 12 | weaves | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 loves | conj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weaves | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 web | det |
| 16 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weaves | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thoughts | case |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 web | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thoughts | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 been | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 been | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 been | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 things | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the imagination | a truth | nature or history | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | weave | present | the imagination not said here | a web of thoughts of things | history | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | |||
| 3 | think | things | nom thought «cognition 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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