Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 35
But on the second night and on the third night also there were similar eruptions.
Who acts: similar eruptions · What happens: be
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 (similar eruptions), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 were | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 night | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | conj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 were | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eruptions | amod |
| 15 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | similar eruptions | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «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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