Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 73
After this, there was an underground eruption to the sea marked by a fissure down the mountain side through which clouds of steam and smoke were forced.
Who acts: underground eruption · What happens: be, mark, force, cloud · To what, where: sea, clouds, mountain side, steam
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 (underground 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 was | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eruption | det |
| 7 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eruption | amod |
| 8 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eruption | nmod |
| 12 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sea | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 fissure | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fissure | det |
| 15 | fissure | fissure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | compound |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fissure | nmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 forced | obl |
| 22 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 steam | case |
| 24 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clouds | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 smoke | cc |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steam | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 forced | aux:pass |
| 28 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 side | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a underground eruption to the sea | there | after this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mark | participle | the sea not said here | by a fissure down the mountain side | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fissure=Destination | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | clouds of steam and smoke | the mountain side | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cloud | steam and smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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