Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 82
It made a golden glory of the fire clouds of the volcano Kilauea.
Who acts: light, fire clouds · What happens: make, glory, cloud · To what, where: golden glory, volcano
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, fire clouds), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 glory | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glory | amod |
| 5 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 clouds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clouds | compound |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 glory | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 volcano | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 volcano | det |
| 12 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clouds | nmod |
| 13 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 volcano | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | light | a golden glory of the fire clouds of the volcano | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material glory=Product | ||||
| 2 | glory | the fire clouds of the volcano | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | cloud | the volcano | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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