Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 37
Kilauea looks like a congealed lake whose glossy black hard waves had hardened while rolling and struggling with each other under some fierce tempest.
Who acts: Kilauea · What happens: look, congeal, harden, roll, struggle · To what, where: glossy black hard waves, fierce tempest
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 (Kilauea), 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 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 5 | congealed | congeal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lake | amod |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | obl |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 waves | nmod:poss |
| 8 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waves | amod |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waves | amod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waves | amod |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hardened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hardened | aux |
| 13 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lake | acl:relcl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 rolling | mark |
| 15 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hardened | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 struggling | cc |
| 17 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 rolling | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 each | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 struggling | obl |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 tempest | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 tempest | det |
| 23 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tempest | amod |
| 24 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struggling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Kilauea | like a congealed lake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | congeal | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | harden | past · perfect · passive | glossy black hard waves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | struggle | gerund | some fierce tempest | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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