Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 77
The natives reported that about three o’clock in the morning of Feb. 24, they had seen innumerable red, blue, and green lights dancing in the waters.
Who acts: natives, green lights · What happens: report, see, dance · To what, where: green lights, three o’clock, waters
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 (natives, green lights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reported | nsubj |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 three | advmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 o’clock | nummod |
| 7 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 o’clock | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 24 | case |
| 12 | Feb. | February | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 13 24 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 morning | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 o’clock | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 18 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seen | xcomp |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seen | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blue | punct |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 red | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lights | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lights | cc |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lights | amod |
| 25 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reported | obl |
| 26 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 lights | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 waters | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waters | det |
| 29 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dancing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | the natives | green lights | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | three o’clock in the morning of 24 Feb. | natives = native nsubj; innumerable, red property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | green lights not said here | the waters | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=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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