Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 120
They thought that the forest wilderness was burning.
Who acts: people, forest wilderness · What happens: think, burn · 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 (people, forest wilderness), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 burning | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wilderness | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wilderness | compound |
| 6 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burning | aux |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | the forest wilderness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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