Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 39
This eruption flowed ten miles in two hours, and continued five days, destroying many thousands of acres of good lands.”
Who acts: eruption · What happens: flow, continue, destroy · To what, where: ten miles, many thousands
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 (eruption), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 eruption | det |
| 2 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flowed | nsubj |
| 3 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 miles | nummod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flowed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 continued | cc |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flowed | parataxis |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 continued | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 destroying | punct |
| 15 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 continued | advcl |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thousands | amod |
| 17 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 destroying | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 acres | case |
| 19 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lands | case |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lands | amod |
| 22 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 acres | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flowed | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past | this eruption | ten miles | hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | destroy | gerund | many thousands of acres of good lands | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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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