Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 12
There in a beautiful garden spot grew the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians.
Who acts: beautiful garden spot · What happens: grow · To what, where: fine food plants
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: who acts (beautiful garden spot), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 grew | expl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spot | amod |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spot | compound |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plants | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plants | amod |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plants | compound |
| 11 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hawaiians | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hawaiians | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hawaiians | amod |
| 15 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 plants | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a beautiful garden spot | the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme |
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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