Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 17
Sea-urchins and star-fish crawl lazily along the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef.
Who acts: Sea urchins · What happens: crawl · To what, where: valleys
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 (Sea urchins), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 urchins | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sea | punct |
| 3 | urchins | urchin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crawl | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fish | cc |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 star | punct |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 urchins | conj |
| 8 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 8 crawl | advmod |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 valleys | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 valleys | det |
| 12 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crawl | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uplands | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 uplands | det |
| 15 | uplands | upland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 valleys | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reef | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reef | det |
| 18 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 19 reef | compound |
| 19 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uplands | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crawl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present | Sea urchins and star fish | the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef | lazily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along valley=Trajectory |
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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