Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 86
O great clouds of Iku! black as smoke!
What happens: cloud · To what, where: great clouds, Iku
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: 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 clouds | discourse |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clouds | amod |
| 3 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Iku | case |
| 5 | Iku | Iku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 clouds | nmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 black | punct |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clouds | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 smoke | case |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 black | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 clouds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | cloud | Iku | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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