Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 27
Thus a lava flow in a few years becomes the foundation for a growing forest.
Who acts: lava flow · What happens: become, grow · To what, where: foundation
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 (lava flow), 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 | _ | 9 becomes | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flow | det |
| 3 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | compound |
| 4 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 years | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flow | nmod |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foundation | det |
| 11 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foundation | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | a lava flow in a few years | the foundation for a growing forest | thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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