Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 32
Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appeared upon the scene.
Who acts: such story, lava, fiery blasts, man · What happens: outline, flow, compose, appear · To what, where: tremendous events, whirlwinds, narrative, scene
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such story, lava, fiery blasts, man), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outlines | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | nmod |
| 6 | outlines | outline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 events | det |
| 8 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 events | amod |
| 9 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 outlines | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 explosions | punct |
| 11 | explosions | explosion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 events | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whirlwinds | punct |
| 13 | whirlwinds | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 events | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 avalanches | punct |
| 15 | avalanches | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whirlwinds | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flows | punct |
| 17 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flows | nsubj |
| 18 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whirlwinds | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 earthquakes | punct |
| 20 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 events | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 composed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 composed | cc |
| 23 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blasts | amod |
| 24 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 composed | nsubj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 composed | nsubj |
| 26 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 outlines | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 narrative | det |
| 28 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 composed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 domain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 domain | det |
| 31 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 narrative | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Pele | case |
| 33 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 domain | nmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 appeared | mark |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appeared | nsubj |
| 36 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 composed | advcl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 scene | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 scene | det |
| 39 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appeared | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 outlines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outline speech: other | present | some such story as this | the tremendous events and explosions and whirlwinds and avalanches and earthquakes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Topic | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | lava | whirlwinds and avalanches not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compose | past | fiery blasts | the narrative of the domain of Pele | which nsubj | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Result | |||
| 4 | appear | past | man | the scene | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon scene=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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