Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 1
“Moving back, and forth in the wind Softly moving in the quiet breeze Rocking by the side of the sea.”
What happens: move back, move, rock · To what, where: wind, quiet breeze
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moving | punct |
| 2 | Moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Moving | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forth | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forth | cc |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 Moving | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Moving | obl |
| 10 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 2 Moving | advmod |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Moving | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 breeze | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 breeze | det |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 breeze | amod |
| 15 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moving | obl |
| 16 | Rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 moving | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Rocking | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moving | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move back in a quote | gerund | the wind | forth, softly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in wind=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | move in a quote | gerund | the quiet breeze | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | rock in a quote | gerund | by the side of the sea | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
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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