Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 18
The surface of the sea is itself covered with ceaselessly moving waves reflecting a tropical luxuriance of color.
Who acts: moving waves · What happens: cover, move, reflect · To what, where: surface, tropical luxuriance
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 (moving waves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 surface | det |
| 2 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surface | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 covered | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 waves | case |
| 10 | ceaselessly | ceaselessly | ADV | _ | 11 moving | advmod |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 waves | amod |
| 12 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl:agent |
| 13 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 waves | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 luxuriance | det |
| 15 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 luxuriance | amod |
| 16 | luxuriance | luxuriance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflecting | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 color | case |
| 18 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 luxuriance | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | moving waves | the surface of the sea | sea obl:unmarked | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | ceaselessly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reflect | gerund | moving waves not said here | a tropical luxuriance of color | tree rules |
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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