Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 20
In one valley beautiful clear sea-water invited the girls to bathe.
Who acts: beautiful clear sea water, girls · What happens: invite, bathe · To what, where: girls, one valley
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 (beautiful clear sea water, girls), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 valley | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 valley | nummod |
| 3 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | obl |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | nsubj |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girls | det |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 invited | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bathe | mark |
| 13 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invited | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | beautiful clear sea water | the girls | one valley | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bathe not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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