Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 88
The storm fell in torrents from black clouds gathered right over the pit.
Who acts: storm, black clouds · What happens: fall, gather · To what, where: torrents, pit
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 (storm, black clouds), 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 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 torrents | case |
| 5 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 gathered | mark |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clouds | amod |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | advcl |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 pit | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 pit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pit | det |
| 13 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the storm | torrents | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | black clouds | the pit | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=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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