Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 13
Upon this land storms fell and through it multitudes of streams found their way to the sea.
Who acts: multitudes · What happens: storm, fall, find · To what, where: way
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 (multitudes), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storms | obl |
| 4 | storms | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 storms | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 multitudes | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 multitudes | nsubj |
| 9 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 streams | case |
| 11 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 multitudes | nmod |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 storms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | present | upon this land | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | multitudes land of streams | multitudes's way | to the sea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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