Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 80
The lava, becoming stone, filled up the holes out of which the red melted mass was trying to force itself.
Who acts: lava, red melted mass · What happens: become, fill up, melt, try, force · To what, where: stone, holes, mass, lava
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, red melted mass), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 becoming | punct |
| 4 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lava | conj |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becoming | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lava | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 filled | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 holes | det |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 trying | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mass | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mass | amod |
| 16 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mass | amod |
| 17 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trying | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trying | aux |
| 19 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 holes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 force | mark |
| 21 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trying | xcomp |
| 22 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 force | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lava | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | gerund | stone | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fill up | participle | the lava not said here | the holes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | try | past · progressive | the red melted mass | the holes | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | the red melted mass not said here | mass | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
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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