Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 87

Several were taken into the boats, perfectly incandescent and so molten in the interior that the lava could be stirred with a stick, the water having penetrated only about an inch.

Who acts: interior, water · What happens: take, stir, have, penetrate · To what, where: Several, boats, lava, inch

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 (interior, water), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taken	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 boats	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boats	det
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taken	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 incandescent	punct
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	9 incandescent	advmod
9	incandescent	incandescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boats	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 molten	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 molten	advmod
12	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taken	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 interior	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 interior	det
15	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 molten	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 stirred	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lava	det
18	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stirred	nsubj:pass
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stirred	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 stirred	aux:pass
21	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 interior	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 stick	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stick	det
24	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stirred	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 water	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stick	conj
28	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 water	acl
29	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 having	xcomp
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 inch	advmod
31	about	about	ADV	_	33 inch	advmod
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 inch	det
33	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 penetrated	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		Several	the boats and incandescent		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into boat=Destination
2	stir	could · passive	the interior not said here	the lava		with a stick and the water	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with stick=Co-Patient
3	have	gerund	the water not said here				tree rules
4	penetrate	participle	the water not said here	a inch			vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 87