Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 12
The lava disintegrating made earth deposits and soil.
Who acts: lava · What happens: disintegrate, make · To what, where: made earth deposits, lava
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lava | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | disintegrating | disintegrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lava | acl |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 deposits | amod |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deposits | compound |
| 6 | deposits | deposit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disintegrating | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 soil | cc |
| 8 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deposits | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lava | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disintegrate | gerund | the lava not said here | made earth deposits and soil | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deposit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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