Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 20
The swift-beating waters drove your father on to the reef of coral and there his body lies.
Who acts: beating waters, body · What happens: drive, lie · To what, where: father, reef
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beating waters, body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waters | det |
| 2 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beating | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 swift | punct |
| 4 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waters | compound |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drove | nsubj |
| 6 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 reef | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 reef | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reef | det |
| 12 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 coral | case |
| 14 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reef | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lies | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 lies | expl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lies | nsubj |
| 19 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 drove | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the beating waters | your father | the reef of coral | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme on reef=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | present | water's body | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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