Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 44
The king prepared offerings and sacrifices for Pele and, as a royal priest, went to the place where the lava was still pouring in floods out of its new-born crater.
Who acts: king, lava · What happens: go, pour, bear · To what, where: place, floods
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lava), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 3 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 offerings | amod |
| 4 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sacrifices | cc |
| 6 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 offerings | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Pele | case |
| 8 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sacrifices | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 priest | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 priest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Pele | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 pouring | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lava | det |
| 22 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pouring | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pouring | aux |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 pouring | advmod |
| 25 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 place | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 floods | case |
| 27 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pouring | obl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 crater | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 crater | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 crater | nmod:poss |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 born | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
| 33 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 crater | amod |
| 34 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pouring | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king and prepared offerings and sacrifices for Pele and a royal priest | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pour | past · progressive | the lava | floods | still | out lava's born crater | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out crater=Location | ||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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