Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 230
Pele sent increased floods of burning rock upon him.
Who acts: Pele, increased floods · What happens: send, increase, burn · To what, where: increased floods, rock
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, increased floods), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 floods | amod |
| 4 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 burning | mark |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 floods | acl |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burning | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burning | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Pele | increased floods | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | increased floods not said here | rock | upon lava | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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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