Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 125
Volumes of smoke rolled, curling upward, while the strong steam burst forth with reports like the firing of cannon.
Who acts: strong steam, cannon · What happens: roll, curl, burst, fire · To what, where: Volumes
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 (strong steam, cannon), 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 | Volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 smoke | case |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Volumes | nmod |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 curling | punct |
| 6 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rolled | conj |
| 7 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 6 curling | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 burst | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steam | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steam | amod |
| 12 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burst | nsubj |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 burst | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 reports | case |
| 16 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 burst | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 firing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 firing | det |
| 19 | firing | firing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reports | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cannon | case |
| 21 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 firing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle · passive | Volumes of smoke | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 2 | curl | gerund | upward property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burst | past | the strong steam | with reports like the firing of cannon; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fire | cannon | nom firing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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