Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 224
Coming up to the forest— Attacking the trees— Clouds of smoke from the crater.”
Who acts: Coming · What happens: come up, attack, cloud · To what, where: forest, trees, smoke, crater
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 (Coming), 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 | Coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Attacking | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Coming | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coming | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Attacking | punct |
| 7 | Attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Attacking | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Clouds | punct |
| 11 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Attacking | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 smoke | case |
| 13 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Clouds | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 crater | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crater | det |
| 16 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Clouds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Clouds | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Attacking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | gerund | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | attack | gerund | Coming | the trees | Clouds of smoke from the crater obl | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 3 | cloud | smoke | the crater | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient from=place |
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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