Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 64
It is certain that she came at a very opportune time, for the eruption ceased in a day or so.
Who acts: fire, flow · What happens: be, come, cease · To what, where: eruption
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 (fire, flow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 opportune | advmod |
| 10 | opportune | opportune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eruption | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 eruption | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eruption | det |
| 15 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | parataxis |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eruption | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ceased | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 so | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 certain | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fire | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | flow | time | the eruption parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | cease | participle | the eruption not said here | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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