Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 2
At the place where the people crossed the river were two things which looked like large, flat logs tossing in the water.
Who acts: people, river, two things, large flat logs · What happens: cross, be, look, toss · To what, where: place, two things, water
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, river, two things, large flat logs), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossed | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 crossed | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crossed | nsubj |
| 7 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | cop |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 things | nummod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crossed | parataxis |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 logs | case |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 logs | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 large | punct |
| 18 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 logs | amod |
| 19 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 20 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 logs | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tossing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the people | the place | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the river | two things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | two things | like large flat logs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | toss | gerund | large flat logs not said here | the water | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in water=Destination |
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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