Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 30
Suddenly a great cloud concealed the household, then rolled away, and all the surrounding cliffs were clearly revealed.
Who acts: great cloud · What happens: conceal, roll away, reveal · To what, where: household, surrounding cliffs
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 (great cloud), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 concealed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloud | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloud | amod |
| 4 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | nsubj |
| 5 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 household | det |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concealed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rolled | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rolled | advmod |
| 10 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concealed | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 rolled | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 revealed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 revealed | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 cliffs | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cliffs | det |
| 16 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cliffs | compound |
| 17 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 revealed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 revealed | aux:pass |
| 19 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 20 revealed | advmod |
| 20 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concealed | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | a great cloud | the household | suddenly property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Patient | |||
| 2 | roll away | participle | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reveal | past · passive | all surrounding cliffs | clearly property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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