Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 100
Rain came down in floods and a strong wind swept the face of the precipice.
Who acts: Rain, strong wind · What happens: come down, sweep · To what, where: floods, face
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rain, strong wind), 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 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 floods | case |
| 5 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swept | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wind | amod |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swept | nsubj |
| 10 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swept | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 precipice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 precipice | det |
| 15 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Rain | floods | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flood=Location | |||
| 2 | sweep | past | a strong wind | the face of the precipice | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Trajectory |
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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