Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 69
The snow-mantle was seized by the outbursting lava and began to burn up.
Who acts: outbursting lava · What happens: seize, outburst, begin, burn up · To what, where: snow mantle
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outbursting lava), 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 | 4 mantle | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mantle | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux:pass |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 lava | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lava | det |
| 9 | outbursting | outburst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lava | amod |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 burn | mark |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 burn | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the outbursting lava | the snow mantle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | outburst | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the outbursting lava not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | burn up | to-infinitive | the outbursting lava not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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