Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 25
Several coconut [20] groves had been destroyed, and lava land was built out into the sea.
What happens: destroy, build out · To what, where: Several coconut, lava land, sea
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: 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 coconut | amod |
| 2 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 groves | punct |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 groves | nummod |
| 5 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 20 | punct |
| 6 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 coconut | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 destroyed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 9 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 built | cc |
| 12 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | compound |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 built | aux:pass |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 destroyed | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 built | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past · perfect · passive | Several coconut and 20 groves | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | build out | past · passive | lava land | the sea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into sea=Product |
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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