Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 6
Time and again he laid the districts of South Hawaii desolate by the lava he poured out from his fire-pits.
Who acts: laau · What happens: lay, desolate, pour out · To what, where: districts, lava, fire pits
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 (laau), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Time | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 districts | det |
| 7 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hawaii | compound |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 districts | nmod |
| 11 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laid | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lava | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lava | det |
| 14 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 desolate | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 poured | nsubj |
| 16 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lava | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 poured | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 pits | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pits | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pits | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fire | punct |
| 22 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 poured | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | laau | the districts of South Hawaii | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | laau not said here | by the lava | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pour out | past | laau | the lava not said here | laau's fire pits | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lava=Theme from pit=Initial_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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