Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 99

One of the eruptions from Mokuaweoweo tried to take possession of a river-bed, but the waters chilled one side of the lava and built it into a wall.

Who acts: One, waters · What happens: try, take, chill, build, possess · To what, where: possession, one side, water, wall, river bed

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 (One, waters), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tried	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 eruptions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eruptions	det
4	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Mokuaweoweo	case
6	Mokuaweoweo	Mokuaweoweo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eruptions	nmod
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 bed	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bed	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 river	punct
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possession	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chilled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 chilled	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waters	det
19	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 chilled	nsubj
20	chilled	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tried	parataxis
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 side	nummod
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chilled	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 lava	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lava	det
25	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 built	cc
27	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chilled	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 built	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 wall	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wall	det
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 built	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	One of the eruptions from Mokuaweoweo			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	One of the eruptions from Mokuaweoweo not said here	possession of a river bed		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
3	chill	past	the waters	one side of the lava		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus side=Experiencer
4	build	past	the waters not said here	water	a wall	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into wall=Product
5	possess			a river bed		nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 99