Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 56
The roar of this surging lava sea was a glorious sound, the roar of an ocean at dispeace mingled with the hollow murmur of surf echoing in sea caves, booming on, rising and falling like the thunder music of windward Hawaii.
Who acts: roar, surf, surging lava sea, ocean · What happens: surge, be, mingle, echo, boom on, rise · To what, where: glorious sound, dispeace, sea caves, surf
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 (roar, surf, surging lava sea, ocean), 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 roar | det |
| 2 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sea | nsubj |
| 5 | surging | surge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sea | amod |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | compound |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roar | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sound | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sound | amod |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roar | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roar | det |
| 14 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ocean | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ocean | det |
| 17 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roar | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 dispeace | case |
| 19 | dispeace | dispeace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roar | nmod |
| 20 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dispeace | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 murmur | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 murmur | det |
| 23 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 murmur | amod |
| 24 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mingled | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 surf | case |
| 26 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 murmur | nmod |
| 27 | echoing | echo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 surf | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 caves | case |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 caves | compound |
| 30 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 echoing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 booming | punct |
| 32 | booming | boom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sound | parataxis |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 booming | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rising | punct |
| 35 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 booming | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 falling | cc |
| 37 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 booming | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 music | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 music | det |
| 40 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 music | compound |
| 41 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 falling | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Hawaii | case |
| 43 | windward | windward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Hawaii | amod |
| 44 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 music | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surge | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the roar of surging lava sea this | a glorious sound and the roar of a ocean at dispeace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | dispeace not said here | with the hollow murmur of surf | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with murmur=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | echo | gerund | surf not said here | sea caves | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 5 | boom on | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | like the thunder music of windward Hawaii | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | roar | surging lava sea this | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | roar | a ocean | dispeace | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place | |||||
| 10 | murmur | surf | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=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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