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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 14

As the ocean depths draw near the island coasts, they grow more and more shallow and become a wonderful fairy-land into which the dreamer looks from his floating canoe.

Who acts: ocean depths, deposits, dreamer · What happens: draw, grow, become, look · To what, where: island coasts, wonderful fairy land

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ocean depths, deposits, dreamer), 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

markdetcompoundnsubjadvclcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjadvmodccadvmodconjccconjdetamodcompoundpunctxcompcaseobldetnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:posscompoundoblpunctrootAsSCONJtheDEToceanNOUNdepthsNOUNdrawVERBnearADPtheDETislandNOUNcoastsNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONgrowVERBmoreADVandCCONJmoreADVshallowADJandCCONJbecomeVERBaDETwonderfulADJfairyNOUN-PUNCTlandNOUNintoADPwhichPRONtheDETdreamerNOUNlooksVERBfromADPhisPRONfloatingNOUNcanoeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_5 drawmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 depthsdet
3oceanoceanNOUNNumber=Sing4 depthscompound
4depthsdepthNOUNNumber=Plur5 drawnsubj
5drawdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 growadvcl
6nearnearADP_9 coastscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 coastsdet
8islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing9 coastscompound
9coastscoastNOUNNumber=Plur5 drawobl
10,,PUNCT_5 drawpunct
11theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 grownsubj
12growgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13moremoreADVDegree=Cmp12 growadvmod
14andandCCONJ_16 shallowcc
15moremoreADVDegree=Cmp16 shallowadvmod
16shallowshallowADJDegree=Pos13 moreconj
17andandCCONJ_18 becomecc
18becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 growconj
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 landdet
20wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos23 landamod
21fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing23 landcompound
22--PUNCT_21 fairypunct
23landlandNOUNNumber=Sing18 becomexcomp
24intointoADP_25 whichcase
25whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 looksobl
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 dreamerdet
27dreamerdreamerNOUNNumber=Sing28 looksnsubj
28lookslookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 landacl:relcl
29fromfromADP_32 canoecase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 canoenmod:poss
31floatingfloatingNOUNNumber=Sing32 canoecompound
32canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing28 looksobl
33..PUNCT_12 growpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drawpresentthe ocean depthsthe island coastsvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2growpresentdeposits = depositvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3becomeinfinitivedeposits = deposit not said herea wonderful fairy landvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4lookpresentthe dreamerfrom dreamer's floating canoe; into a wonderful fairy landvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into which=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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