Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 63
At last she saw the smoke, which had clouded the forests along the way to the home of her friend, grow darker and blacker and then change into the orange hues of outbreaking fire.
Who acts: Hiiaka, orange hues · What happens: see, cloud, grow, change, outbreak · To what, where: smoke, last, orange hues, fire
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 (Hiiaka, orange hues), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smoke | det |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clouded | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 clouded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 clouded | aux |
| 10 | clouded | cloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 smoke | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forests | det |
| 12 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clouded | obj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clouded | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 home | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 24 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 grow | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blacker | cc |
| 26 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 darker | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 change | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 change | advmod |
| 29 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 darker | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 hues | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hues | det |
| 32 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hues | amod |
| 33 | hues | hue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 change | obl |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 outbreaking | mark |
| 35 | outbreaking | outbreak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 hues | acl |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 outbreaking | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Hiiaka | the smoke | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cloud | past · perfect · passive | the smoke | along the way to the home of Hiiaka's friend; the forests obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | Hiiaka not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | then | into the orange hues result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hue=Result | |||
| 5 | outbreak | gerund | the orange hues not said here | fire | tree rules |
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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