Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 79
Heavier were the earthquake shocks shaking all the country around the volcano.
Who acts: Heavier earthquake · What happens: be, shock, shake · To what, where: Heavier earthquake, country, volcano
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 (Heavier earthquake), 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 | Heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 earthquake | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 earthquake | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earthquake | det |
| 4 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shocks | nsubj |
| 5 | shocks | shock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 shocks | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 country | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaking | obj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 volcano | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 volcano | det |
| 12 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaking | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Heavier earthquake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shock | present | the Heavier earthquake | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the Heavier earthquake not said here | all country | the volcano | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme around volcano=Trajectory |
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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