Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 45
Before her lay a great circular plain, black-walled, full of burning lava leaping up in wonderful fire-dances and boiling violently around a group of beautiful women.
Who acts: Ka, lava · What happens: lie, wall, burn, leap up, boil · To what, where: great circular plain, lava, wonderful fire dances, group
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plain | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plain | amod |
| 6 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plain | amod |
| 7 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walled | punct |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walled | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 black | punct |
| 11 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plain | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 burning | mark |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 full | advcl |
| 16 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burning | obj |
| 17 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lava | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 leaping | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dances | case |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dances | amod |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dances | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fire | punct |
| 23 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leaping | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 boiling | cc |
| 25 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 leaping | conj |
| 26 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 25 boiling | advmod |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 group | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 group | det |
| 29 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boiling | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 women | case |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 women | amod |
| 32 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 group | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Ka | a great circular plain | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wall | participle | a great circular plain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | Ka not said here | lava | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leap up | gerund | lava not said here | wonderful fire dances | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dance=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | boil | gerund | lava not said here | a group of beautiful women | violently property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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