Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 71
The sides of the great crater were torn to pieces by fierce earthquakes.
Who acts: fierce earthquakes · What happens: tear · To what, where: sides
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 (fierce earthquakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sides | det |
| 2 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 crater | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crater | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crater | amod |
| 6 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sides | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 torn | aux:pass |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 earthquakes | case |
| 12 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 earthquakes | amod |
| 13 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | fierce earthquakes | the sides of the great crater | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to piece=Result |
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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