Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 6
Sometimes the tunnels left by currents of melted lava running toward the west are the passages into the home of departed spirits.
Who acts: melted lava, tunnels · What happens: leave, melt, run, be, depart · To what, where: tunnels, west, passages, home
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (melted lava, tunnels), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 passages | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tunnels | det |
| 3 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 passages | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tunnels | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 currents | case |
| 6 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lava | case |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lava | amod |
| 9 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 currents | nmod |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lava | acl |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 west | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 west | det |
| 13 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 passages | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 passages | det |
| 16 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 home | det |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passages | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spirits | case |
| 21 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 spirits | amod |
| 22 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 home | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 passages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | the tunnels not said here | by currents of melted lava | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by current=Location | ||||
| 2 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | run | gerund | melted lava not said here | the west | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward west=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the tunnels | the passages | the home of departed spirits | sometimes property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | depart | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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