Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 60
She stamped on the ground, the earth shook, cracks opened in the surface and sometimes clouds of smoke and steam arose around Kama-puaa.
Who acts: Pele, earth, clouds · What happens: stamp, shake, open, arise, cloud · To what, where: ground, surface, Kama puaa, smoke
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, earth, clouds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stamped | nsubj |
| 2 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stamped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stamped | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 11 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shook | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arose | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 arose | advmod |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 arose | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 smoke | case |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clouds | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 steam | cc |
| 22 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smoke | conj |
| 23 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 puaa | case |
| 25 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 puaa | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 puaa | punct |
| 27 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arose | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | Pele | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the earth | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | open | present · passive | the surface | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in surface=Location | |||||
| 4 | arise | past | clouds of smoke and steam | Kama puaa | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around puaa=Location | |||
| 5 | cloud | smoke and steam | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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