Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 5
Frequently they were sharks which had a shark mouth although appearing like men.
Who acts: monsters, sharks · What happens: be, have, appear · To what, where: sharks, shark mouth
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 (monsters, sharks), 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 | Frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 4 sharks | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sharks | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharks | cop |
| 4 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharks | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mouth | det |
| 8 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | compound |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 appearing | mark |
| 11 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appearing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sharks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | monsters = monster | sharks | frequently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | sharks | a shark mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | gerund | sharks not said here | like men | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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