Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 82
“The lehua is being covered by the sand, A little red flower remains on the plain, The body is hidden in the stones, The flower is lying in the path.
Who acts: sand, flower · What happens: cover, hide, lie · To what, where: lehua, body, stones, path
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 (sand, flower), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lehua | det |
| 3 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sand | det |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remains | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 remains | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 remains | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 remains | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remains | compound |
| 15 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 covered | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 plain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plain | det |
| 18 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remains | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hidden | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | aux:pass |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 covered | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stones | det |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hidden | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lying | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 flower | det |
| 29 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lying | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 lying | aux |
| 31 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 hidden | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 path | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 path | det |
| 34 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lying | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover in a quote | present · passive | the sand | the lehua | a little red flower remains on the plain obl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | hide in a quote | present · passive | the body | the stones | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present · progressive | the flower | the path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=Location |
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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