Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 29
The sugar-cane and taro beds were bordered by flowers and shaded by long-branching trees.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: border, shade · To what, where: sugar cane
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 | 4 cane | det |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cane | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sugar | punct |
| 4 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beds | cc |
| 6 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beds | compound |
| 7 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cane | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bordered | aux:pass |
| 9 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bordered | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shaded | cc |
| 13 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bordered | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branching | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | branching | branching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shaded | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | past · passive | flowers | the sugar cane and taro beds | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | shade | participle | flowers not said here | branching trees obl:agent | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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