Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 96
Following this on May 31, came the record “severe shake, things thrown down.”
What happens: follow, come, throw down · To what, where: this, 31, record, things
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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Following | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 31 | case |
| 4 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Following | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Following | punct |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 record | det |
| 9 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shake | punct |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shake | amod |
| 12 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 record | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 things | punct |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shake | conj |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 things | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 thrown | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shake | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | this | 31 May | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent this=Theme on 31=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the record | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location record=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw down in a quote | participle | things not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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