Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 82
Thus by her spirit-power she looked back to Hawaii and saw Puna devastated and the land covered by the destructive floods of lava sent out by Pele.
Who acts: Keaau, Puna, lava · What happens: look back, see, devastate, cover, send out, flood · To what, where: Hawaii, land, lava · 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 (Keaau, Puna, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 power | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 spirit | punct |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 14 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 devastated | nsubj |
| 15 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 land | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 devastated | obj |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 land | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 floods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floods | det |
| 22 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 floods | amod |
| 23 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lava | case |
| 25 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floods | nmod |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lava | acl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sent | compound:prt |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Pele | case |
| 29 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sent | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | Keaau | Hawaii | by Keaau's spirit power; thus property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by power=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Keaau not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | devastate | past | Puna | the land | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | the land not said here | by the destructive floods of lava | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send out | participle | lava not said here | by Pele | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | flood | lava | nom flood «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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