Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 20
When he landed he took this shell in his hands and it grew smaller and smaller until he could tuck it away in his loin cloth.
Who acts: puaa, boat · What happens: land, take, grow, tuck away · To what, where: shell, hands, boat, loin cloth
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puaa, boat), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 landed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 shell | det |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smaller | cc |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 smaller | conj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 tuck | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tuck | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tuck | aux |
| 20 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grew | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tuck | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 tuck | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 cloth | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | loin | loin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cloth | compound |
| 26 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tuck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | puaa | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | puaa | this shell | puaa's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shell=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | past | boat | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tuck away | could | puaa | boat | puaa's loin cloth | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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