Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 30
Soon he was dead and his body floated on the water until the tide swept it out to sink in the deep sea.
Who acts: MAKAUKIU, body, tide · What happens: be, float, sweep out, sink · To what, where: water, body, deep sea
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 (MAKAUKIU, body, tide), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 floated | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floated | nsubj |
| 8 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floated | obl |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 swept | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tide | det |
| 14 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swept | nsubj |
| 15 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 floated | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swept | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 swept | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sink | mark |
| 19 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swept | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sea | amod |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sink | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | MAKAUKIU | dead, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | past | MAKAUKIU's body | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sweep out | past | the tide | body | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sink | to-infinitive | the tide not said here | the deep sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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