Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 185
Whenever she became impatient at the delay of the coming of Lohiau, she would fling her scorching smoke and foul gas over Hiiaka’s beautiful forests—and sometimes would smite the land with an overflow of burning lava.
Who acts: Pele, delay, overflow · What happens: become, come, fling, scorch, smite, burn · To what, where: Lohiau, smoke, beautiful forests, land, lava
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 (Pele, delay, overflow), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fling | advcl |
| 4 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 delay | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 delay | det |
| 7 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impatient | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 coming | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coming | det |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 delay | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lohiau | case |
| 12 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fling | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fling | aux |
| 16 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fling | obj |
| 18 | scorching | scorch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fling | advcl |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scorching | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gas | cc |
| 21 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gas | amod |
| 22 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smoke | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 forests | case |
| 24 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 forests | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Hiiaka | case |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 forests | amod |
| 27 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scorching | obl |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 smite | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 smite | cc |
| 30 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 smite | advmod |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 smite | aux |
| 32 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fling | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smite | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 overflow | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 overflow | det |
| 37 | overflow | overflow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smite | obl |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 burning | mark |
| 39 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 overflow | acl |
| 40 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 burning | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Pele | impatient, whenever property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the delay not said here | of Lohiau | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of lohiau=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fling | would | Pele | Lohiau | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scorch | gerund | Pele not said here | smoke and foul gas | Hiiaka's beautiful forests | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent smoke=Patient | |||
| 5 | smite | would | Pele not said here | the land | with a overflow; sometimes property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with overflow=Instrument | |||
| 6 | burn | gerund | a overflow not said here | lava | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=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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