Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 12
Mountain clear for several days, the smoke is marked, light brilliant at night, snow extensive on both mountains.”
What happens: mark · To what, where: smoke
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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clear | compound |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clear | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marked | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 smoke | det |
| 8 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 marked | aux:pass |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 clear | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brilliant | punct |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brilliant | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 marked | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brilliant | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brilliant | parataxis |
| 18 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 snow | amod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 extensive | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clear | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · passive | the smoke | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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