Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 52
There was a very strong flashing light breaking out at the front of the descending lava.
Who acts: strong flashing light · What happens: be, break out, descend · To what, where: front
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 (strong flashing light), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 light | amod |
| 6 | flashing | flashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 light | compound |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 light | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 breaking | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 front | det |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lava | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lava | det |
| 15 | descending | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lava | amod |
| 16 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a strong flashing light | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break out | gerund | a strong flashing light not said here | the front of the descending lava | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at front=Location | ||||
| 3 | descend | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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