Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 86
Nearly all the pieces on reaching the surface were red hot, emitting steam and gas strongly sulphurous.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: reach, be, emit · To what, where: surface, 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 (pieces), 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 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pieces | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pieces | det |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 reaching | mark |
| 6 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pieces | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 surface | det |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reaching | obj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hot | cop |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hot | amod |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 emitting | punct |
| 13 | emitting | emit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hot | advcl |
| 14 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emitting | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gas | cc |
| 16 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steam | conj |
| 17 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 18 sulphurous | advmod |
| 18 | sulphurous | sulphurous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 steam | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | all pieces not said here | the surface | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all pieces | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | emit | gerund | all pieces not said here | steam and gas | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source steam=Theme |
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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