Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 14
Thus many sea-caves were formed, into which waves beat violently with every incoming tide.
Who acts: waves · What happens: form, beat · To what, where: many sea caves
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caves | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caves | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | aux:pass |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beat | punct |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 beat | obl |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beat | nsubj |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | conj |
| 13 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 12 beat | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tide | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tide | det |
| 16 | incoming | incoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tide | compound |
| 17 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | many sea caves | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | waves | with every incoming tide; which obl; violently property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into which=Result with tide=Instrument |
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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