Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 31
Soon out of the clear sky above the conflict appeared Pele hurling a fierce bolt of lightning at the giant.
Who acts: lightning · What happens: appear, hurl, bolt · To what, where: Pele, clear sky, fierce bolt
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sky | amod |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 conflict | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conflict | det |
| 9 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sky | nmod |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obj |
| 12 | hurling | hurl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 appeared | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bolt | det |
| 14 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bolt | amod |
| 15 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hurling | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lightning | case |
| 17 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bolt | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 giant | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 giant | det |
| 20 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hurling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Pele | the clear sky above the conflict | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pele=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurl | gerund | a fierce bolt of lightning | at the giant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme at giant=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bolt | lightning | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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