Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 86
Here she threw up a great quantity of fire-rock, but at last her fires were drowned by the water she struck below.
Who acts: place, water · What happens: throw up, drown, strike, fire · To what, where: great quantity, last fires, water
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 (place, water), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 threw | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 quantity | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quantity | amod |
| 7 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quantity | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drowned | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 drowned | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fires | amod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fires | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drowned | aux:pass |
| 19 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drowned | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 struck | nsubj |
| 24 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 water | acl:relcl |
| 25 | below | below | ADV | _ | 24 struck | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw up | past | place | a great quantity of fire rock | here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | |||
| 2 | drown | past · passive | the water | place's last fires | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | place | the water not said here | below property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 4 | fire | place | nom fire «event transitive»: 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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