Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 70

The waiting and impatient goddess of fire became angry with her messenger and hurled lava from the pit crater down into the forests which she had promised to protect.

Who acts: waiting · What happens: become, hurl, promise, protect · To what, where: lava, pit crater, forests

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 (waiting), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waiting	det
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 goddess	cc
4	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goddess	amod
5	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waiting	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fire	case
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goddess	nmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 messenger	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 messenger	nmod:poss
12	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 angry	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hurled	cc
14	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
15	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hurled	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 crater	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crater	det
18	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crater	compound
19	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hurled	obl
20	down	down	ADV	_	14 hurled	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 forests	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forests	det
23	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hurled	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 promised	nsubj:pass
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 promised	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 promised	aux
27	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 forests	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 protect	mark
29	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promised	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the waiting and impatient goddess of fire			angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hurl	past	the waiting and impatient goddess of fire not said here	lava	the pit crater	into the forests; down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lava=Theme from crater=Initial_Location into forest=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		the forests		Hiiaka nsubj	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 70