Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 15

Strange branching thickets of coral lie below, sometimes fringed with moving seaweeds and exquisitely colored sea-mosses, while through the coral and moss swim the marvellously painted fish of a hundred varieties.

Who acts: Strange branching thickets, marvellously · What happens: lie, fringe, move, color, swim, paint · To what, where: coral, fish

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 (Strange branching thickets, marvellously), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thickets	amod
2	branching	branching	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thickets	compound
3	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lie	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 coral	case
5	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thickets	nmod
6	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fringed	punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 fringed	advmod
10	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lie	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 seaweeds	case
12	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 seaweeds	amod
13	seaweeds	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fringed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mosses	cc
15	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	_	16 colored	advmod
16	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mosses	amod
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mosses	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sea	punct
19	mosses	moss	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seaweeds	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swim	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 swim	mark
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 coral	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coral	det
24	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swim	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 moss	cc
26	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coral	conj
27	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fringed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 marvellously	det
29	marvellously	marvellously	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 painted	nsubj
30	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swim	ccomp
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 painted	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 varieties	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hundred	det
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 varieties	nummod
35	varieties	variety	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fish	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Strange branching thickets of coral			below property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fringe	participle	Strange branching thickets of coral not said here			with moving seaweeds and colored sea mosses; sometimes property	tree rules
3	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	color	participle				exquisitely property	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	swim	present	Strange branching thickets of coral not said here		the coral and moss		tree rules
6	paint	past	the marvellously	fish of hundred varieties			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fish=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 15