Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 78
The lava chilled and hardened and choked the flowing, burning rivers.
Who acts: lava · What happens: chill, harden, choke, flow, burn · To what, where: rivers
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 (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 | 2 lava | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chilled | nsubj |
| 3 | chilled | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hardened | cc |
| 5 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chilled | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 choked | cc |
| 7 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chilled | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowing | det |
| 9 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 choked | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burning | punct |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 flowing | conj |
| 12 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burning | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past | the lava | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | harden | past | the lava not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | choke | past | the lava not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | the lava not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | the lava not said here | rivers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent river=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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