Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 20

Wonderfully restful is the dream life of the winterless seas of the coral caves, and yet even to-day fierce floods of boiling lava sometimes find their way over the seashore and down over the reefs, destroying the life of sea-moss and coral polyps, and surrounding shells and fish and crawling slugs or swift-moving eels with floods of turbid, boiling, death-dealing water in place of the clear waves through which they had been accustomed to journey.

Who acts: fierce floods, boiling lava · What happens: be, find, destroy, surround, move, boil · To what, where: restful dream life, way, seashore, life, shells, eels

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce floods, boiling 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	Wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	2 restful	advmod
2	restful	restful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 life	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 life	det
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	compound
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 seas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seas	det
9	winterless	winterless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seas	amod
10	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 life	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 caves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 caves	det
13	coral	coral	NOUN	_	14 caves	compound
14	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seas	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 floods	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 floods	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 even	advmod
18	even	even	ADV	_	23 floods	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 even	obl
22	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 floods	amod
23	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 find	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lava	case
25	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lava	compound
26	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 floods	nmod
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 find	advmod
28	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 life	parataxis
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 seashore	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seashore	det
33	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 reefs	cc
35	down	down	ADV	_	38 reefs	advmod
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 reefs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reefs	det
38	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seashore	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 destroying	punct
40	destroying	destroy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 find	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 life	det
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 destroying	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 moss	case
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 moss	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 sea	punct
46	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 life	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 polyps	cc
48	coral	coral	NOUN	_	49 polyps	compound
49	polyps	polyp	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 moss	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 surrounding	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 surrounding	cc
52	surrounding	surround	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 destroying	conj
53	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 surrounding	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 fish	cc
55	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 shells	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 slugs	cc
57	crawling	crawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 slugs	compound
58	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 shells	conj
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 moving	cc
60	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 moving	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 swift	punct
62	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 surrounding	conj
63	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 moving	obj
64	with	with	ADP	_	65 floods	case
65	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 moving	obl
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 turbid	case
67	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 floods	nmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 boiling	punct
69	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 destroying	conj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 dealing	punct
71	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 dealing	compound
72	-	-	PUNCT	_	71 death	punct
73	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 destroying	conj
74	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 dealing	obj
75	in	in	ADP	_	76 place	case
76	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 dealing	obl
77	of	of	ADP	_	80 waves	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 waves	det
79	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 waves	amod
80	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 place	nmod
81	through	through	ADP	_	82 which	case
82	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	86 accustomed	obl
83	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 accustomed	nsubj:pass
84	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	86 accustomed	aux
85	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	86 accustomed	aux:pass
86	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 waves	acl:relcl
87	to	to	PART	_	88 journey	mark
88	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 accustomed	xcomp
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 life	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the restful dream life		of the winterless seas of the coral caves	tree rules
2	find	present	fierce floods of boiling lava	floods's way	the seashore and the reefs	sometimes property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	destroy	gerund	fierce floods of boiling lava not said here	the life of sea moss and coral polyps			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
4	surround	gerund	fierce floods of boiling lava not said here	shells and fish and crawling slugs			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shell=Co-Theme
5	move	gerund	fierce floods of boiling lava not said here	eels		with floods of turbid; swift compound	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eel=Theme
6	boil	gerund	fierce floods of boiling lava not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	deal	gerund	fierce floods of boiling lava not said here	water	place of the clear waves	death compound	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
8	accustom	past · perfect · passive		floods = flood	the clear waves	journey xcomp	tree rules
9	flood		boiling 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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 20

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 20