Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 12
Some were the great clouds floating in the heavens.
Who acts: great clouds · What happens: be, float · To what, where: great clouds, heavens
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great clouds), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 clouds | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clouds | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clouds | amod |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 clouds | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heavens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heavens | det |
| 9 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 floating | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clouds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | some great clouds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | float | gerund | some great clouds not said here | the heavens | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=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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