Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 34
The lava stream became a river of fire, flowing rapidly toward and around some farmhouses.
Who acts: lava stream · What happens: become, flow · To what, where: river
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 stream), 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 stream | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stream | compound |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flowing | punct |
| 10 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 became | advcl |
| 11 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 12 toward | advmod |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADV | _ | 10 flowing | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 around | cc |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 farmhouses | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 farmhouses | det |
| 16 | farmhouses | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 toward | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the lava stream | a river of fire | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | the lava stream not said here | toward 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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