Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 2
It has a continual growth of delicately shaded leaves.
Who acts: lehua, shaded leaves · What happens: have, shade, grow · To what, where: continual growth
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lehua, shaded leaves), 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 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 growth | det |
| 4 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 growth | amod |
| 5 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 7 | delicately | delicately | ADV | _ | 8 shaded | advmod |
| 8 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 leaves | amod |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 growth | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | lehua | a continual growth of shaded leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shade | participle | delicately property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | shaded leaves | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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