Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 29
It rolled in over the tops of coconut trees, probably sixty feet high at least, driving all floating rubbish inland about a quarter of a mile—taking with it, when it returned to the sea, houses, men, and women and everything movable.”
Who acts: wave · What happens: roll in, drive, float, take, return · To what, where: tops, floating rubbish, houses
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wave), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 rolled | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 tops | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tops | det |
| 6 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rolled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tops | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feet | punct |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 13 feet | advmod |
| 12 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trees | nmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 least | case |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 high | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 driving | punct |
| 18 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rolled | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 rubbish | det |
| 20 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 rubbish | amod |
| 21 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 driving | obj |
| 22 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 18 driving | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 quarter | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 quarter | det |
| 25 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 driving | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mile | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mile | det |
| 28 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quarter | nmod |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 taking | punct |
| 30 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rolled | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 taking | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 returned | punct |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 returned | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 returned | nsubj |
| 36 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 taking | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 returned | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 houses | punct |
| 41 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 taking | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 men | punct |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 houses | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 movable | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 movable | cc |
| 46 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 movable | nsubj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 everything | cc |
| 48 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 46 women | conj |
| 49 | movable | movable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rolled | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 movable | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in | past | wave | the tops of coconut trees sixty feet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | wave not said here | all floating rubbish | a quarter of a mile obl; inland property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme rubbish=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | take | gerund | houses and men | with wave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | return | past | wave | to the sea result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sea=Result |
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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