Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 82
Blocks of lava two feet across were thrown up from beneath, striking the boats and jarring them.
What happens: throw up, strike, jar · To what, where: Blocks, boats
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 | Blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 lava | case |
| 3 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blocks | nmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 feet | nummod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blocks | conj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 1 Blocks | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 thrown | compound:prt |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 beneath | case |
| 11 | beneath | beneath | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 thrown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 striking | punct |
| 13 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thrown | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boats | det |
| 15 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 striking | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 jarring | cc |
| 17 | jarring | jar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 striking | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 jarring | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw up | past · passive | Blocks of lava and two feet | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | the boats | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | |||||
| 3 | jar | gerund | boats = boat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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