Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 65
“Yellow grows the smoke of Ka-lua (the crater) Turning heavily toward the sea.
Who acts: Yellow, crater, Ka lua · What happens: grow, turn, smoke · To what, where: smoke, sea
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 (Yellow, crater, Ka lua), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lua | case |
| 7 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lua | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ka | punct |
| 9 | lua | lua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smoke | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 crater | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crater | det |
| 12 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lua | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 crater | punct |
| 14 | Turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 crater | acl |
| 15 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 14 Turning | advmod |
| 16 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Turning | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | present | Yellow | the smoke of Ka lua | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | the crater not said here | the sea | heavily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward sea=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | smoke in a quote | Ka lua | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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