Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 112
“In the year 1822, or 1823 perhaps, there was an eruption from Kilauea pouring down into the Kau district very close to the Puna line.
Who acts: eruption · What happens: be, pour down, district · To what, where: 1822, Kau · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (eruption), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 1822 | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 1822 | obl |
| 5 | 1822 | 1822 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 was | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1823 | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 1823 | cc |
| 8 | 1823 | 1823 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1822 | conj |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 1823 | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1823 | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 eruption | det |
| 14 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 district | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Kilauea | case |
| 16 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 eruption | nmod |
| 17 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 eruption | acl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 pouring | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Kau | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Kau | det |
| 21 | Kau | Kau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pouring | obl |
| 22 | district | district | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 was | ccomp |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 close | advmod |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 district | amod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 line | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 line | det |
| 27 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 line | compound |
| 28 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 close | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | 1822 in the year | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour down in a quote | gerund | a eruption from Kilauea not said here | the Kau | down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kau=Location | |||
| 3 | district in a quote | present | a eruption from Kilauea | tree rules |
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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