Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 3
The young leaf, pink tinted, comes as the old leaf shading into gray falls from the tree.
Who acts: young leaf, old leaf · What happens: tint, come, shade, fall · To what, where: gray, tree
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 (young leaf, old leaf), 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 | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pink | punct |
| 5 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 6 | tinted | tint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pink | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaf | punct |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 falls | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaf | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leaf | amod |
| 12 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falls | nsubj |
| 13 | shading | shade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 leaf | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 gray | case |
| 15 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shading | obl |
| 16 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comes | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falls | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tint | participle | the young leaf not said here | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the young leaf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shade | gerund | the old leaf not said here | gray | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | present | the old leaf | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_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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