Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 34
Here and there small clouds of steam come from crevices around a hotel where the traveller finds his resting-place.
Who acts: small clouds, traveller · What happens: come, find, cloud · To what, where: crevices, resting place, steam
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 (small clouds, traveller), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 clouds | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 there | cc |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clouds | amod |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steam | case |
| 7 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clouds | nmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 crevices | case |
| 10 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 hotel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hotel | det |
| 13 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 finds | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 traveller | det |
| 16 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | nsubj |
| 17 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hotel | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 resting | punct |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | small clouds of steam | crevices | around a hotel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from crevice=Initial_Location around hotel=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | present | the traveller | traveller's resting place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cloud | steam | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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