Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 122
The people assembled together and looked toward the place where the fire was very great and the air was heavy with smoke.
Who acts: people, fire, air · What happens: assemble, look, be
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, fire, air), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 assembled | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembled | conj |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 great | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 great | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 great | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heavy | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heavy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heavy | cop |
| 20 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 great | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 smoke | case |
| 22 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heavy | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | the people | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the people not said here | toward the place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the fire | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the air | with smoke; heavy property | 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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