Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 29

All her fire-pits were so near the water that they burst out in great explosions of steam and sand, and quickly died, until at last she found Kilauea on the large island of Hawaii.

Who acts: fire pits, fires, Pa · What happens: be, burst out, die, find, explode · To what, where: water, great explosions, Kilauea, last, steam

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 (fire pits, fires, Pa), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 pits	det:predet
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pits	nmod:poss
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pits	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
5	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 water	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 water	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 water	advmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 burst	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 burst	nsubj
13	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 water	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 burst	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 explosions	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 explosions	amod
17	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burst	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 steam	case
19	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 explosions	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sand	cc
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 steam	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	25 died	advmod
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burst	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 died	conj
32	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 island	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 island	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 island	amod
36	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Hawaii	case
38	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 island	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pa's fire pits		the water		tree rules
2	burst out	past	fires = fire		great explosions of steam and sand		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in explosion=Location
3	die	past	fires = fire not said here			quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	find	past	Pa	Kilauea	last	on the large island of Hawaii	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kilauea=Theme at last=Asset
5	explode			steam and sand			nom explosion «event transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 29