Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 95
Wave was thirteen and a half feet above high water mark at Waiakea, swept inland forty rods, accurate measurement.”
Who acts: Wave · What happens: be, sweep · To what, where: thirteen, forty rods
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 | Wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thirteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thirteen | cop |
| 3 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 swept | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 half | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 feet | compound |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thirteen | conj |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 mark | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mark | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mark | compound |
| 11 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Waiakea | case |
| 13 | Waiakea | Waiakea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mark | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swept | punct |
| 15 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 15 swept | advmod |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rods | nummod |
| 18 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swept | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 measurement | punct |
| 20 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 measurement | amod |
| 21 | measurement | measurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rods | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 swept | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wave | thirteen and half feet above high water mark at Waiakea | half feet above high water mark at Waiakea conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sweep | past | forty rods and accurate measurement | inland property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rod=Trajectory |
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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