Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 33
In the night a terrific eruption took place, throwing out flame, cinders, and even heavy stones to a great distance and accompanied from above with intense lightning and heavy thunder.
Who acts: terrific eruption · What happens: take, throw out, accompany · To what, where: place, flame, great distance
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 (terrific eruption), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eruption | det |
| 5 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eruption | amod |
| 6 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throwing | punct |
| 10 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 throwing | compound:prt |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cinders | punct |
| 14 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flame | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stones | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stones | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 stones | advmod |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stones | amod |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 distance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 distance | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 distance | amod |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 accompanied | cc |
| 25 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 distance | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 above | case |
| 27 | above | above | ADV | _ | 25 accompanied | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 lightning | case |
| 29 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lightning | amod |
| 30 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thunder | cc |
| 32 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thunder | amod |
| 33 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lightning | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a terrific eruption | place | night | to a great distance; heavy stones obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to distance=Destination | ||
| 2 | throw out | gerund | a terrific eruption not said here | flame and cinders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | a great distance not said here | intense lightning and heavy thunder obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from above=Destination |
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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