Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 36
He disappears from Hawaiian thought and Pele from a foreign land finds a satisfactory crater in which her spirit power can always dig up everlastingly overflowing fountains of raging lava.
Who acts: god, Hawaiian, spirit power, overflowing fountains · What happens: disappear, think, find, dig up, overflow, rage · To what, where: satisfactory crater, foreign land, overflowing fountains, 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 (god, Hawaiian, spirit power, overflowing fountains), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 disappears | nsubj |
| 2 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 thought | mark |
| 4 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disappears | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Pele | cc |
| 7 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 disappears | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 10 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 land | amod |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obl |
| 12 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 disappears | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crater | det |
| 14 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crater | amod |
| 15 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dig | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 power | compound |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dig | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 dig | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 dig | advmod |
| 23 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 crater | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 dig | compound:prt |
| 25 | everlastingly | everlastingly | ADV | _ | 26 overflowing | advmod |
| 26 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 fountains | amod |
| 27 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dig | obj |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 raging | mark |
| 29 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 fountains | acl |
| 30 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 raging | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disappears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present | god | Pele conj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Hawaiian | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | present | a satisfactory crater | a foreign land | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crater=Theme from land=Source | ||||
| 4 | dig up | can | Pele's spirit power | overflowing fountains | a satisfactory crater | always property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme in which=Location | ||
| 5 | overflow | gerund | everlastingly property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | rage | gerund | overflowing fountains not said here | lava | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location lava=Theme |
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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