Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 42
Sometimes new lava melts through the walls of these caves and pours along the path left ages before, frequently finding an outlet even under the waves of the sea.
Who acts: new lava, path · What happens: melt, pour, leave, find, wave · To what, where: walls, ages, outlet, waves, sea
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 (new lava, path), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 melts | advmod |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lava | amod |
| 3 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melts | nsubj |
| 4 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 walls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 melts | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 caves | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 caves | det |
| 10 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walls | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pours | cc |
| 12 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 melts | conj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 left | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | nsubj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pours | ccomp |
| 17 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finding | punct |
| 20 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 21 finding | advmod |
| 21 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 left | advcl |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 outlet | det |
| 23 | outlet | outlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finding | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 waves | advmod |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 waves | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waves | det |
| 27 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 finding | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waves | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 melts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | new lava | the walls of this caves | sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | pour | present | new lava not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the path | ages | before property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | gerund | the path not said here | a outlet | the waves of the sea | frequently property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outlet=Topic | ||
| 5 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event 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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