Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 83
Soon the boat leaped through the waters.
What happens: leap · To what, where: boat, waters
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 boat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boat | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 waters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waters | det |
| 7 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leaped | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the boat not said here | the waters | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |
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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