Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 27
Lava had been poured out from the craters in the mountains and foothills.
What happens: pour out · To what, where: Lava, craters
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poured | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 poured | aux:pass |
| 4 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 poured | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 craters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 craters | det |
| 8 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poured | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountains | det |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 craters | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 foothills | cc |
| 13 | foothills | foothill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mountains | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | past · perfect · passive | Lava | the craters in the mountains and foothills | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from crater=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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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