Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 54
“Nearly opposite us a fountain of pure yellow fire, unlike the gory gleam of Kilauea, was throwing up its glorious incandescence.
Who acts: fire · What happens: throw up, incandesce · To what, where: glorious incandescence, opposite fountain
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 (fire), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fountain | punct |
| 2 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 opposite | advmod |
| 3 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fountain | amod |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 opposite | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fountain | det |
| 6 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 8 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gleam | punct |
| 12 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 15 gleam | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gleam | det |
| 14 | gory | gory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gleam | amod |
| 15 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kilauea | case |
| 17 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gleam | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 throwing | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 throwing | aux |
| 20 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fountain | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 throwing | compound:prt |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 incandescence | nmod:poss |
| 23 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 incandescence | amod |
| 24 | incandescence | incandescence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 throwing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw up in a quote | past · progressive | fire's glorious incandescence | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent incandescence=Theme | |||||
| 3 | incandesce in a quote | fire | nom incandescence «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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