Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 109
She would send a flood of lava in her anger and burn everything up.
Who acts: Pele, lava · What happens: send, burn up, flood, anger · To what, where: flood, anger, everything
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flood | det |
| 5 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lava | case |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flood | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 anger | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 anger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 burn | cc |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 burn | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 burn | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | would | Pele | a flood of lava | Pele's anger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flood=Theme in anger=Destination | |||
| 2 | burn up | infinitive | Pele not said here | everything | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flood | lava | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | anger | Pele | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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