Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 135
But all kinds of ferns were leaping up rapidly around the place where the dragons renewed the fight.
Who acts: kinds, dragons · What happens: leap up, renew · To what, where: place, fight
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 (kinds, dragons), 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 | _ | 7 leaping | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kinds | det |
| 3 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaping | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ferns | case |
| 5 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kinds | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaping | aux |
| 7 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 leaping | compound:prt |
| 9 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 7 leaping | advmod |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaping | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 renewed | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragons | det |
| 15 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 renewed | nsubj |
| 16 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fight | det |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 renewed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap up | past · progressive | all kinds of ferns | the place | rapidly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | renew | past | the dragons | the fight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fight=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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