Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 73
The mountains trembled while the tossing waves of the conflict between fire and snow passed through and over them.
Who acts: mountains, tossing waves · What happens: tremble, pass through, wave · To what, where: conflict
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 (mountains, tossing waves), 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 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trembled | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 passed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waves | det |
| 6 | tossing | tossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waves | compound |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 conflict | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conflict | det |
| 10 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waves | nmod |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conflict | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 snow | cc |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conflict | conj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | ccomp |
| 16 | through | through | ADV | _ | 15 passed | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 them | cc |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 passed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the mountains | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass through | past | the tossing waves of the conflict between fire and snow | mountains = mountain conj; through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wave | the conflict between fire and snow | nom wave «event 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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