Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 27
When this column became great it blew all to pieces into sand and ashes and great stones, which for some days continued to fall around the sides of Kilauea.
Who acts: column · What happens: become, blow, continue, fall · To what, where: pieces, sand, sides
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 (column), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 became | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 column | det |
| 3 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blew | advcl |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blew | nsubj |
| 7 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 pieces | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blew | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sand | case |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ashes | cc |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pieces | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stones | cc |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stones | amod |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pieces | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 continued | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 days | det |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 continued | obl |
| 23 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fall | mark |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 continued | xcomp |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 sides | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sides | det |
| 28 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fall | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Kilauea | case |
| 30 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sides | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this column | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | column | pieces and ashes and great stones | sand | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent piece=Material into sand=Product | |||
| 3 | continue | past | pieces and ashes and great stones | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | the sides of Kilauea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around side=Location |
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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