Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 52
The tides were more snappy as they cast their surf waves along the beach.
Who acts: tides · What happens: be, cast, wave · To what, where: surf waves, beach
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 (tides), 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 tides | det |
| 2 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snappy | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snappy | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 snappy | advmod |
| 5 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 cast | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cast | nsubj |
| 8 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 snappy | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 waves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waves | compound |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cast | obj |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 beach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cast | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tides | snappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast | present | tides = tide | tides's surf waves | the beach | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wave=Theme along beach=Destination | |||
| 3 | wave | tides = tide | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=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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