Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 72
Masses of fire expanded the water into steam, and Pele gathered the forces of the underworld to aid in driving back Kama-puaa.
Who acts: Masses, Pele · What happens: expand, gather, aid, drive back · To what, where: water, steam, forces, Kama
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 (Masses, Pele), 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 | Masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expanded | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 fire | case |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Masses | nmod |
| 4 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expanded | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 steam | case |
| 8 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expanded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gathered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gathered | cc |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gathered | nsubj |
| 12 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expanded | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forces | det |
| 14 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gathered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 underworld | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 underworld | det |
| 17 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forces | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 aid | mark |
| 19 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gathered | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 driving | mark |
| 21 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 aid | advcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 driving | advmod |
| 23 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 driving | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 puaa | punct |
| 25 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Kama | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | past | Masses of fire | the water | steam | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 2 | gather | past | Pele | the forces of the underworld | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | ||||
| 3 | aid | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drive back | gerund | Pele not said here | Kama | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kama=Theme |
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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