Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 33
The lava, starting from the slope of Mauna Loa, sank into some great channel but “burst forth with a heavy roar several miles farther down.
Who acts: lava · What happens: start, sink, burst · To what, where: slope, great channel
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 (lava), 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 lava | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starting | punct |
| 4 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lava | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 slope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slope | det |
| 7 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starting | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mauna | case |
| 9 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slope | nmod |
| 10 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mauna | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lava | punct |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 channel | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 channel | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 channel | amod |
| 16 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 burst | cc |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 burst | punct |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sank | conj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 burst | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 roar | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 roar | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 roar | amod |
| 24 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | obl |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 miles | amod |
| 26 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 down | advmod |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 burst | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | the lava not said here | the slope of Mauna | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | the lava | some great channel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burst in a quote | infinitive | the lava not said here | with a heavy roar; down, forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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