Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 132
Then there were burning ashes destroying every green thing for many miles.
Who acts: burning ashes · What happens: be, burn, destroy · To what, where: green thing
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 (burning ashes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ashes | amod |
| 5 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ashes | acl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destroying | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 miles | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 miles | amod |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 destroying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | burning ashes | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | destroy | gerund | burning ashes not said here | every green thing | for many miles | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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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