Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 88
[1] There Pele dug with her Paoa, and a great quantity of lava was thrown out of her fire-pit.
Who acts: Pele dug · What happens: throw · To what, where: great quantity, fire pit, Pele dug
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 dug), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 dug | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 Pele | expl |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | compound |
| 6 | dug | dug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Paoa | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Paoa | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Paoa | Paoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thrown | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thrown | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quantity | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quantity | amod |
| 14 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lava | case |
| 16 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quantity | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thrown | aux:pass |
| 18 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dug | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 pit | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pit | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pit | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fire | punct |
| 24 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thrown | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | Pele dug with place's Paoa not said here | a great quantity of lava | place's fire pit | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme out pit=Destination |
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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