Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 68
After many days had passed and she had found Lohiau she had another vision of Puna and saw a great eruption of lava making desolate the land.
Who acts: traveller, great eruption, lava · What happens: pass, find, have, see, make, desolate · To what, where: many days, Lohiau, vision, great eruption, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (traveller, great eruption, lava), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | conj |
| 10 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | ccomp |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 vision | det |
| 14 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Puna | case |
| 16 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 vision | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 eruption | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eruption | amod |
| 21 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lava | case |
| 23 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eruption | nmod |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 eruption | acl |
| 25 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 making | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 land | det |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 desolate | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | many days | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | traveller | Lohiau | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lohiau=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | traveller | another vision of Puna | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | past | a great eruption of lava | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eruption=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | a great eruption of lava not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | desolate | infinitive | a great eruption of lava not said here | the land | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | erupt | lava | nom eruption «event 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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