Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 93
A heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M., destroying 34 houses on the Waiakea side of the harbor, also the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko’s old store.
Who acts: heavy tidal wave · What happens: destroy · To what, where: 34 houses, Waiakea side, old store
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 (heavy tidal wave), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wave | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wave | amod |
| 3 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wave | amod |
| 4 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 store | nmod:poss |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 A.M. | case |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 A.M. | nummod |
| 7 | A.M. | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 destroying | punct |
| 9 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wave | acl |
| 10 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 houses | nummod |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 destroying | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | Waiakea | Waiakea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 side | compound |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 harbor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 harbor | det |
| 18 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bridge | punct |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 bridge | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bridge | det |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wave | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 houses | cc |
| 24 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 houses | nummod |
| 25 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wave | conj |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 Waialama | case |
| 27 | Waialama | Waialama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 houses | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Aiko | cc |
| 29 | Aiko | Aiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Waialama | conj |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 wave | case |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 store | amod |
| 32 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 store | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | gerund | a heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M. and the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko not said here | 34 houses | the Waiakea side of the harbor | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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