Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 17
Together they went out into the white-capped waves bathing and swimming and seeking the fish of the coral caves.
Who acts: Hopoe · What happens: go out, cap, seek · To what, where: waves bathing, fish
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 (Hopoe), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bathing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bathing | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 capped | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 white | punct |
| 9 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 waves | amod |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bathing | compound |
| 11 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swimming | cc |
| 13 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bathing | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seeking | cc |
| 15 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeking | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 caves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 caves | det |
| 20 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 21 caves | compound |
| 21 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fish | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Hopoe | the waves bathing and swimming | out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cap | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seek | gerund | Hopoe not said here | the fish of the coral caves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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