Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 128
When it came to the sea mighty was the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea, the steam rising in clouds to the sky.
Who acts: Narrow, sea mighty, steam · What happens: come, be, rise · To what, where: clouds
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 (Narrow, sea mighty, steam), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mighty | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mighty | compound |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rage | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rage | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rage | det |
| 10 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rage | amod |
| 11 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boiling | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boiling | det |
| 14 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rage | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boiling | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 steam | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steam | det |
| 20 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rage | conj |
| 21 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 steam | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 clouds | case |
| 23 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rising | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sky | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clouds | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Narrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the sea mighty | to the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea and the steam; the boiling of the sea conj; the steam conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the steam not said here | clouds to the sky | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloud=Location |
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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