Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 108
Pele threw great masses of lava at Kama-puaa, striking and churning the sea into which he leaped midst the swirling heated mass.
Who acts: Pele, lava · What happens: throw, strike, churn, leap, swirl, heat · To what, where: great masses, Kama puaa, sea, midst
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 masses | amod |
| 4 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lava | case |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 masses | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 puaa | case |
| 8 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 puaa | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kama | punct |
| 10 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 striking | punct |
| 12 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 threw | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 churning | cc |
| 14 | churning | churn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 striking | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 churning | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 leaped | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leaped | nsubj |
| 20 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 churning | advcl |
| 21 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mass | det |
| 23 | swirling | swirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 mass | amod |
| 24 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mass | amod |
| 25 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Pele | great masses of lava | Kama puaa | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mass=Theme at puaa=Destination | |||
| 2 | strike | gerund | Pele not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | churn | gerund | Pele not said here | the sea | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product | ||||
| 4 | leap | past | lava | midst | which obl; the swirling heated mass obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | swirl | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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