Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 17
Occasional spasmodic efforts were made in both earthquake and lava flow until the fire cooled in the submarine chambers.
Who acts: fire · What happens: make, cool · To what, where: Occasional spasmodic efforts, earthquake, submarine chambers
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 (fire), 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 | Occasional | occasional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 efforts | amod |
| 2 | spasmodic | spasmodic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 efforts | amod |
| 3 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 earthquake | case |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 earthquake | cc:preconj |
| 8 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flow | cc |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flow | compound |
| 11 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 earthquake | conj |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 cooled | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cooled | nsubj |
| 15 | cooled | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chambers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chambers | det |
| 18 | submarine | submarine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chambers | compound |
| 19 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cooled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Occasional spasmodic efforts | earthquake and lava flow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cool | past | the fire | the submarine chambers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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