Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 26
The heaviest shock, that of April 2d, destroyed every church and nearly every dwelling in the whole district.
What happens: destroy · To what, where: church, heaviest shock
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: 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 | 3 shock | det |
| 2 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 shock | amod |
| 3 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 2d | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 2d | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 2d | case |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 2d | compound |
| 8 | 2d | 2d | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 shock | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroyed | punct |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shock | conj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dwelling | cc |
| 14 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 dwelling | advmod |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 dwelling | det |
| 16 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 church | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 district | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 district | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 district | amod |
| 20 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelling | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | participle | every church and every dwelling in the whole district | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=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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