Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 186
Sometimes she would look down over that part of Puna where Hopoe dwelt and hurl spurts of lava toward her home.
Who acts: Pele, Hopoe, lava · What happens: look down, dwell, hurl, spurt · To what, where: spurts
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, Hopoe, 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Puna | case |
| 10 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | advmod |
| 12 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurl | cc |
| 15 | hurl | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dwelt | conj |
| 16 | spurts | spurt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hurl | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lava | case |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spurts | nmod |
| 19 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurl | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | would | Pele | over that part of Puna; down, sometimes property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | Hopoe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurl | present | Hopoe not said here | spurts of lava | toward Pele's home | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spurt=Theme | |||
| 4 | spurt | lava | nom spurt «event 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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