Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 28
Following the earthquake came a great tidal wave at Punaluu.
Who acts: great tidal wave · What happens: follow, come · To what, where: earthquake
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 (great tidal wave), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earthquake | det |
| 3 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Following | obj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wave | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wave | amod |
| 7 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wave | amod |
| 8 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Punaluu | case |
| 10 | Punaluu | Punaluu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wave | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the earthquake | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a great tidal wave at Punaluu | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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