Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 58
But in a moment there was a rush upward of a fountain of lava and hurled up with it she saw the body of the little black pig tossing in the changing jets of fire.
Who acts: rush upward, woman, little black pig · What happens: be, hurl up, see, toss, change · To what, where: body, changing jets
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 (rush upward, woman, little black pig), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 upward | det |
| 8 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 upward | compound |
| 9 | upward | upward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 upward | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lava | case |
| 14 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fountain | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurled | cc |
| 16 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fountain | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 hurled | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurled | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fountain | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pig | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pig | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pig | amod |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pig | amod |
| 28 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 body | nmod |
| 29 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 pig | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 jets | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 jets | det |
| 32 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 jets | amod |
| 33 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 tossing | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jets | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a rush upward of a fountain of lava | there | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurl up | participle | a rush upward of a fountain of lava not said here | with upward | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | woman | the body of the little black pig | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | toss | gerund | the little black pig not said here | the changing jets of fire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in jet=Destination | ||||
| 5 | change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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