Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 32
Later, the great floor began to cool and lakes appeared in different sections.
Who acts: great floor, lakes · What happens: begin, cool, appear · To what, where: different sections
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great floor, lakes), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 floor | amod |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cool | mark |
| 8 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | cc |
| 10 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sections | case |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sections | amod |
| 14 | sections | section | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appeared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the great floor | late property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cool | to-infinitive | the great floor not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | lakes | different sections | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in section=Location |
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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