Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 76

In the issue of Feb. 28, 1877, he wrote: “As the steamer Kilauea came toward the bay, the passengers saw some canoes rowing about over boiling water.

Who acts: H., steamer, passengers, canoes · What happens: write, come, see, row, boil · To what, where: issue, bay, canoes, boiling water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (H., steamer, passengers, canoes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 issue	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 issue	det
3	issue	issue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrote	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 28	case
5	Feb.	February	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	6 28	nmod:unmarked
6	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 issue	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 1877	punct
8	1877	1877	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 28	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 issue	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrote	nsubj
11	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	As	as	ADP	_	16 steamer	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steamer	det
16	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
17	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 steamer	appos
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrote	ccomp
19	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 bay	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bay	det
21	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 passengers	det
24	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 canoes	det
27	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 saw	obj
28	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 canoes	acl
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 rowing	advmod
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 water	amod
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rowing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	H.		the issue of 28 Feb.		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	past	the steamer		the bay		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward bay=Initial_Location
3	see in a quote	past	the passengers	some canoes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus
4	row in a quote	gerund	some canoes not said here		boiling water	about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory
5	boil in a quote	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 76

The tree

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 76