Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 80
He kindled eruptions manifold, but they were overwhelmed by the vast volumes of water hurled against them by Kama-puaa.
Who acts: makua, eruptions, vast volumes · What happens: kindle, manifold, overwhelm, hurl · To what, where: eruptions, vast volumes
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 (makua, eruptions, vast volumes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kindled | nsubj |
| 2 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 manifold | nsubj |
| 4 | manifold | manifold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kindled | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overwhelmed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 overwhelmed | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 9 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kindled | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 volumes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 volumes | det |
| 12 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 volumes | amod |
| 13 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 overwhelmed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 volumes | nmod |
| 16 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 volumes | acl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurled | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 puaa | case |
| 20 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 puaa | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 puaa | punct |
| 22 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | makua | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | manifold | present | eruptions | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | overwhelm | past · passive | the vast volumes of water | eruptions = eruption | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hurl | participle | the vast volumes of water not said here | against waters = water; by Kama puaa | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent against they=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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