Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 55
A blast of sulphurous gas, a shower of heated embers, or a volume of heated steam would sufficiently account for this sudden death.
Who acts: volume · What happens: heat, account, blast · To what, where: blast, sulphurous gas
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 (volume), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 blast | det |
| 2 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gas | case |
| 4 | sulphurous | sulphurous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gas | amod |
| 5 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blast | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shower | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shower | det |
| 8 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blast | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 embers | case |
| 10 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 embers | amod |
| 11 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shower | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 account | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 account | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 volume | det |
| 15 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 account | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 steam | case |
| 17 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 steam | amod |
| 18 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 volume | nmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 account | aux |
| 20 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 21 account | advmod |
| 21 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blast | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 death | det |
| 24 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 death | amod |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 account | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | account | would | a volume of heated steam | for this sudden death; sufficiently property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blast | sulphurous gas | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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