Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 65
When the earth seemed ready to open its doors and pour out mighty streams of flowing lava in the defence of Pele, Kama-puaa called for the waters of the ocean to rise up.
Who acts: earth, mighty streams · What happens: seem, open, pour out, flow, call, rise up · To what, where: doors, mighty streams, lava, defence, Kama puaa, Pele · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (earth, mighty streams), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 doors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pour | cc |
| 11 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pour | compound:prt |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 streams | amod |
| 14 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pour | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 flowing | mark |
| 16 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 streams | acl |
| 17 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flowing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 defence | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 defence | det |
| 20 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flowing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pele | case |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 defence | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 puaa | punct |
| 24 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 puaa | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 puaa | punct |
| 26 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 defence | appos |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 puaa | acl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 waters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 waters | det |
| 30 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ocean | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ocean | det |
| 33 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 waters | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 rise | mark |
| 35 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 called | advcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 rise | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the earth | ready property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | bitterness's doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour out | present | the earth not said here | mighty streams | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | mighty streams not said here | lava | the defence of Pele | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lava=Theme | |||
| 5 | call | participle | Kama puaa not said here | for the waters of the ocean | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | rise up | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | defend | Pele | nom defence «process 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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