Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 74
The lava at last found its place for escape under the sea.
Who acts: lava · What happens: find · To what, where: place
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 (lava), 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 lava | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lava | nmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 escape | case |
| 9 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the lava at last | lava's place | for escape under the sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for escape=Beneficiary |
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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