Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 33
A second flash of lightning blinded and stunned him.
Who acts: second flash, lightning · What happens: blind, stun, flash · To what, where: flash
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 (second flash, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 flash | amod |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blinded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lightning | case |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | nmod |
| 6 | blinded | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stunned | cc |
| 8 | stunned | stun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blinded | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stunned | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blinded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind | past | a second flash of lightning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stun | past | a second flash of lightning not said here | flash | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event 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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