Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 34
These hills were composed of lava, which easily turned into rich soil when subdued by alternate rain and sunshine.
Who acts: lava · What happens: compose, turn, subdue · To what, where: hills, rich soil
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 hills | det |
| 2 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 composed | aux:pass |
| 4 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lava | case |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 composed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lava | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 soil | case |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soil | amod |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 subdued | advmod |
| 15 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 turned | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 rain | case |
| 17 | alternate | alternate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rain | amod |
| 18 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 subdued | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sunshine | cc |
| 20 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rain | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past · passive | this hills | of lava | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | lava | rich soil | easily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into soil=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | subdue | participle | lava not said here | by alternate rain and sunshine | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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