Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 78
Fiercer and more devouring were the lava floods hurled out over the forest so loved by Hiiaka.
What happens: devour, be, hurl out, love · To what, where: Fiercer lava, forest
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: 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 | Fiercer | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 lava | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 devouring | cc |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 devouring | advmod |
| 4 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Fiercer | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lava | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lava | det |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | floods | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurled | aux:pass |
| 9 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 hurled | compound:prt |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurled | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 loved | advmod |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hurled | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Hiiaka | case |
| 17 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | gerund | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Fiercer lava | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hurl out | present · passive | the Fiercer lava | the forest | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over forest=Destination | ||||
| 4 | love | participle | Hiiaka obl:agent | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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