Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 67
The valley quickly filled with lava, the people were speedily swallowed up.
Who acts: valley · What happens: fill, swallow up · To what, where: people
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 (valley), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 valley | det |
| 2 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 filled | advmod |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 lava | case |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swallowed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 12 swallowed | advmod |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 filled | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the valley | with lava; quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lava=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | swallow up | past · passive | the people | speedily property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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