Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 14
They have their broken-down side wall, through which the last great effort of volcanic life was poured out.
Who acts: craters · What happens: have, break, pour out · To what, where: broken side wall, last great effort
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (craters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wall | nmod:poss |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wall | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 down | punct |
| 6 | down | down | ADJ | _ | 4 broken | compound |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wall | compound |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poured | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 poured | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 effort | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 effort | amod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 effort | amod |
| 15 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 life | amod |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 effort | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 poured | aux:pass |
| 20 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 poured | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | craters = crater | craters's broken side wall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | pour out | past · passive | the last great effort of volcanic life | which obl | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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