Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 80
The roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames was the music of drums beaten for the accompaniment of the household dances.
Who acts: roaring, household, furnaces · What happens: be, beat, dance, roar · To what, where: music, drums, accompaniment
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roaring, household, furnaces), 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 roaring | det |
| 2 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 music | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 furnaces | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 furnaces | det |
| 5 | furnaces | furnace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roaring | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crackling | cc |
| 7 | crackling | crackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furnaces | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flames | case |
| 9 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crackling | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 music | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 music | det |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drums | case |
| 14 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 music | nmod |
| 15 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 drums | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 accompaniment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 accompaniment | det |
| 18 | accompaniment | accompaniment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beaten | obl:agent |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 dances | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 household | det |
| 21 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dances | nsubj |
| 22 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 accompaniment | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 music | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames | the music | of drums | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beat | participle | drums not said here | the accompaniment obl:agent | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | present | the household | the accompaniment not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location accompaniment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roar | the furnaces and crackling of flames | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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