Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 23

The earth swayed north, south, east, west, round and round, up and down, and in every imaginable direction, everything crashing around us, trees thrashing as if torn by a mighty wind, impossible to stand.

Who acts: earth, trees · What happens: sway, crash, thrash, tear, stand

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 (earth, trees), 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 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swayed	nsubj
3	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	north	north	ADV	_	3 swayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 south	punct
6	south	south	ADV	_	3 swayed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 east	punct
8	east	east	ADV	_	3 swayed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 west	punct
10	west	west	ADV	_	8 east	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
12	round	round	ADV	_	3 swayed	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 round	cc
14	round	round	ADV	_	12 round	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
16	up	up	ADV	_	3 swayed	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 down	cc
18	down	down	ADV	_	16 up	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 direction	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 direction	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 direction	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 direction	det
23	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 direction	amod
24	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swayed	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 everything	punct
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 direction	conj
27	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 everything	acl
28	around	around	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 crashing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trees	punct
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 direction	nmod
32	thrashing	thrash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 trees	acl
33	as	as	ADP	_	32 thrashing	advmod
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 as	fixed
35	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 if	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 wind	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 wind	det
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wind	amod
39	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 torn	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 impossible	punct
41	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wind	amod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 stand	mark
43	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 impossible	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sway	past	the earth	every imaginable direction everything trees parataxis; east, north, round, south property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crash	gerund		around us	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around we=Location
3	thrash	gerund	trees not said here		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tear	participle		by a mighty wind	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Trajectory
5	stand	to-infinitive			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 23