Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 42
Soon followed an immense volume of sand and cinders which were thrown in high heaven and came down in a destructive shower for many miles around.
What happens: follow, throw, come down · To what, where: immense volume, cinders, high heaven, destructive shower
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 followed | advmod |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 volume | det |
| 4 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 volume | amod |
| 5 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 volume | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cinders | cc |
| 9 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sand | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thrown | aux:pass |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cinders | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heaven | amod |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thrown | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shower | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shower | det |
| 21 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shower | amod |
| 22 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 miles | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 miles | amod |
| 25 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | obl |
| 26 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | a immense volume of sand and cinders | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | cinders | high heaven | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in heaven=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come down | past | a destructive shower | for many miles; around, down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=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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