Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 119
“In the year 1840, the people of Puna and Hilo districts saw a great fire inland.
Who acts: people · What happens: see · To what, where: great fire
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 (people), 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 | _ | 14 saw | 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 | 14 saw | obl |
| 5 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 districts | case |
| 10 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 districts | compound |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Hilo | cc |
| 12 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Puna | conj |
| 13 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | nmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fire | amod |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 14 saw | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the people of Puna districts | a great fire | year | inland property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
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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