Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 31
All along the seashore from directly below us to Punaluu about three or four miles the sea was boiling and foaming furiously, all red.”
Who acts: seashore · What happens: boil, foam
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 (seashore), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 4 seashore | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 4 seashore | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seashore | det |
| 4 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boiling | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 8 us | advmod |
| 7 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seashore | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Punaluu | case |
| 10 | Punaluu | Punaluu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 us | nmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 three | advmod |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 miles | nummod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 four | cc |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 three | conj |
| 15 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seashore | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 boiling | aux |
| 19 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 foaming | cc |
| 21 | foaming | foam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 boiling | conj |
| 22 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 21 foaming | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 boiling | parataxis |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 all | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 boiling | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | the seashore from us three miles the sea | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | foam | gerund | the seashore from us three miles the sea not said here | furiously property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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