Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 74
Great rock precipices staggered and fell down the sides of the mountains.
Who acts: Great rock precipices · What happens: stagger, fall down · To what, where: sides
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 (Great rock precipices), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 precipices | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 precipices | compound |
| 3 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 staggered | nsubj |
| 4 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 staggered | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sides | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 staggered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger | past | Great rock precipices | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fall down | past | Great rock precipices not said here | the sides of the mountains | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient side=Result |
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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