Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 114
The a-a (broken lava) of this eruption in its journey to the sea spread about eight miles.
Who acts: broken lava, lava · What happens: break, spread, journey
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 (broken lava, lava), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lava | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lava | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 lava | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lava | det |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 lava | punct |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lava | amod |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 lava | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eruption | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 eruption | det |
| 11 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lava | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eruption | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 journey | nmod |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 miles | case |
| 20 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 miles | nummod |
| 21 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | spread | past | the broken lava of this eruption in lava's journey to the sea | about eight miles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about mile=Location | ||||
| 3 | journey | lava | to the sea | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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