Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 4
When these things disappeared the logs would act sometimes as a bridge and sometimes as a boat, taking those who had given presents across the river.
Who acts: things, logs · What happens: disappear, act, take, give · To what, where: those, presents, river
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 (things, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 logs | det |
| 6 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 act | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 act | aux |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disappeared | ccomp |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 bridge | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 act | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boat | cc |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 boat | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridge | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 disappeared | advcl |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 taking | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 given | obj |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 river | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 river | det |
| 27 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | this things | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | act | would | the logs | as a bridge and a boat | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bridge=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | this things not said here | those | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | presents | the river | who nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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