Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 141
Red water and white water fled seaward, and the stormy-heart of the ocean rose in tumbled heaps.
Who acts: Red water, stormy heart · What happens: flee, rise, tumble · To what, where: seaward, tumbled heaps
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red water, stormy heart), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 water | cc |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | conj |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rose | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 11 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 stormy | punct |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ocean | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ocean | det |
| 16 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heaps | case |
| 19 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heaps | amod |
| 20 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | Red water and white water | seaward | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seaward=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the stormy heart of the ocean | tumbled heaps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location | ||||
| 3 | tumble | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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