Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 4
Flowers which are like beautiful red fringed balls are always found glorifying the varicolored foliage.
Who acts: Flowers · What happens: fringe, be, find, glorify · To what, where: Flowers, varicolored foliage
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 (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 | Flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 balls | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 balls | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 balls | case |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balls | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balls | amod |
| 7 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 balls | amod |
| 8 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flowers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | glorifying | glorify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foliage | det |
| 14 | varicolored | varicolored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foliage | amod |
| 15 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glorifying | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Flowers | like beautiful red fringed balls | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | Flowers | always property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glorify | gerund | Flowers not said here | the varicolored foliage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foliage=Theme |
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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