Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 81
Checked and chilled, the lava streams were beaten back into the depths of Mauna Loa and Kilauea.
What happens: check, chill, beat back · To what, where: lava streams, depths
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: 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 | Checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chilled | cc |
| 3 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Checked | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beaten | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streams | det |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streams | compound |
| 7 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beaten | aux:pass |
| 9 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Checked | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 beaten | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 depths | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 depths | det |
| 13 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beaten | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Loa | case |
| 15 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Loa | compound |
| 16 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 depths | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Kilauea | cc |
| 18 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Loa | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | participle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | chill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | beat back | past · passive | the lava streams | the depths of Mauna Loa and Kilauea | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into depth=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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