Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 111
It was thick enough to withstand the boiling waves through which he swam out into the deep sea.
Who acts: skin, puaa · What happens: be, withstand, swim out · To what, where: boiling waves
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 (skin, puaa), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thick | cop |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 thick | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 withstand | mark |
| 6 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thick | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 8 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waves | compound |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 withstand | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 swam | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swam | nsubj |
| 13 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waves | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 swam | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swam | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | skin | enough, thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | withstand | to-infinitive | skin not said here | the boiling waves | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim out | past | puaa | the boiling waves | into the deep sea; out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |
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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