Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 74
Rapidly the surface was cooled and the fountains checked by the water thrown in by Kama-puaa, but just as rapidly were new openings made and new streams of fire hurled at the demi-god of Oahu.
Who acts: water, new openings · What happens: cool, check, throw in, be, make, hurl · To what, where: surface, fountains, water, new openings, new streams, fire
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 (water, new openings), 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 | Rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 5 cooled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surface | det |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooled | aux:pass |
| 5 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 checked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fountains | det |
| 8 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cooled | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 checked | obl |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 water | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 thrown | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 puaa | case |
| 16 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 puaa | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kama | punct |
| 18 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 openings | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 openings | cc |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 openings | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 rapidly | advmod |
| 23 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 26 openings | advmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 openings | cop |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 openings | amod |
| 26 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cooled | obl |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 openings | acl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 streams | cc |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 streams | amod |
| 30 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fire | case |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 streams | nmod |
| 33 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 fire | acl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 god | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 god | det |
| 36 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 god | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 demi | punct |
| 38 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hurled | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Oahu | case |
| 40 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 god | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | past · passive | the surface | rapidly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | check | participle · passive | the water | the fountains | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw in | participle | the water not said here | by Kama puaa | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by puaa=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | new openings | rapidly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | new openings not said here | new streams of fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | hurl | participle | fire not said here | at the demi god of Oahu | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at god=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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