Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 100
On one side was flowing fire and on the other the swift rapids of a river.
What happens: flow · To what, where: fire, one side
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flowing | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flowing | aux |
| 5 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flowing | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rapids | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rapids | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rapids | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rapids | amod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rapids | det |
| 12 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rapids | amod |
| 13 | rapids | rapid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fire | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rapids | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past · progressive | fire and the other swift rapids of a river | one side | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme |
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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