Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 4
One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century overthrew the stone and it now lies a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore.
Who acts: One, stone · What happens: overthrow, lie, shock · To what, where: stone, great black mass, last century
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, stone), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 overthrew | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shocks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shocks | det |
| 4 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shocks | amod |
| 5 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shocks | compound |
| 6 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 century | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shocks | nmod |
| 11 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overthrew | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lies | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lies | advmod |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 overthrew | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mass | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mass | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mass | amod |
| 21 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 rock | case |
| 23 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rock | compound |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mass | nmod |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 seashore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seashore | det |
| 27 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rock | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 overthrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | past | One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century | the stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | stone | a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mass=Theme | |||
| 3 | shock | the last century | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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