Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 69
Then Kama-puaa as a god of the sea gathered the waters together in great masses and hurled them into the fire-pit.
Who acts: Kama puaa · What happens: gather, hurl · To what, where: waters, great masses, fire pit
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 (Kama 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 puaa | advmod |
| 2 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 puaa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kama | punct |
| 4 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 god | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puaa | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | nmod |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waters | det |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gathered | obj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 gathered | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 masses | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 masses | amod |
| 17 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gathered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurled | cc |
| 19 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hurled | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pit | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pit | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pit | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fire | punct |
| 25 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Kama puaa as a god of the sea | the waters | great masses | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||
| 2 | hurl | past | Kama puaa as a god of the sea not said here | waters = water | the fire pit | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pit=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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