Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 26
The people even from Ka-wai-hae [a seaport on the opposite side of the mountains] saw this wonderful column with fire glowing and blazing to its very top.
Who acts: people, fire · What happens: hae, see, glow, blaze · To what, where: seaport, wonderful column, opposite side
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hae | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 Ka | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Ka | case |
| 5 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hae | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wai | punct |
| 7 | wai | wai | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Ka | dep |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hae | punct |
| 9 | hae | hae | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 seaport | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 seaport | det |
| 12 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hae | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 side | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 mountains | punct |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hae | parataxis |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 column | det |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 column | amod |
| 24 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 column | nmod |
| 27 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 fire | acl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blazing | cc |
| 29 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 glowing | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 top | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 top | nmod:poss |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 top | advmod |
| 33 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blazing | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hae | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hae | infinitive | the people | a seaport | Ka nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | this wonderful column | the opposite side of the mountains | with fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer column=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | fire not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | fire not said here | to mountain's top | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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