Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 16
These were the picturesque last throbs of life as a volcano died.
Who acts: These, volcano · What happens: be, die · To what, where: picturesque last throbs
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 (These, volcano), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 throbs | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 throbs | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throbs | det |
| 4 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 throbs | amod |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 throbs | amod |
| 6 | throbs | throb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throbs | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 volcano | det |
| 11 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 throbs | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 throbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | the picturesque last throbs | of life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | a volcano | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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