Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 16
Turning and twisting in and out of coral caves are the spotted eels or the great pink or brown anemone-headed sea-worms.
What happens: turn, twist, spot, be, head · To what, where: spotted eels, coral caves
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: 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twisting | cc |
| 3 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Turning | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 twisting | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eels | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 caves | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 caves | case |
| 8 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 9 caves | compound |
| 9 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eels | obl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eels | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eels | det |
| 12 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eels | amod |
| 13 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Turning | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 worms | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 worms | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 worms | amod |
| 17 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 worms | amod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 brown | cc |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pink | conj |
| 20 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 headed | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 anemone | punct |
| 22 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 worms | amod |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 worms | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sea | punct |
| 25 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eels | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | twist | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the spotted eels or the great pink headed sea worms | coral caves | the great pink headed sea worms conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | head | participle | anemone compound | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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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