Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 83
Dark-leaved the trees in the midst of the hot sun. Heat rising from the face of the moist lava.
Who acts: hot sun. Heat · What happens: leav, rise · To what, where: face, leaved trees
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 (hot sun. Heat), 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaved | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dark | punct |
| 3 | leaved | leav | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trees | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trees | det |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 midst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 midst | det |
| 8 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Heat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Heat | det |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Heat | amod |
| 12 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Heat | compound |
| 13 | Heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 midst | nmod |
| 14 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Heat | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 face | det |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rising | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lava | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lava | det |
| 20 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lava | amod |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 face | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leav | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | the hot sun. Heat not said here | the face of the moist lava | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from face=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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