Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 77
Farther and farther down the sides the snow-mantle unfolded until it dropped on the very fountains of fire.
Who acts: snow mantle · What happens: unfold, drop · To what, where: snow mantle, fountains
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 (snow mantle), 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 | Farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 dropped | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 farther | cc |
| 3 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Farther | conj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sides | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sides | det |
| 6 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dropped | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mantle | det |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mantle | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 snow | punct |
| 10 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | nsubj |
| 11 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mantle | acl |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unfolded | obl |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fountains | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 fountains | advmod |
| 18 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dropped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fountains | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | participle | the snow mantle not said here | until snow | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | the snow mantle | the fountains of fire | down the sides; far property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent down side=Destination on fountain=Initial_Location |
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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