Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 62
The cold has acted quickly upon the lake of fire, congealing a large part of the surface into a hard floor of lava.
What happens: act, congeal · To what, where: cold, large part, hard floor
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: 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 cold | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acted | aux |
| 4 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 acted | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lake | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 congealing | punct |
| 12 | congealing | congeal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 acted | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 congealing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 surface | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 surface | det |
| 18 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 floor | amod |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 congealing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lava | case |
| 24 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floor | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present · perfect · passive | the cold | upon the lake of fire; quickly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | congeal | gerund | a large part of the surface | a hard floor of lava | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent part=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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