Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 1
Through the fleeting hours of Tuesday, January eighth, in the year nineteen hundred and seven, earthquakes were felt all over the island of Hawaii.
What happens: feel · To what, where: earthquakes, island
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hours | det |
| 3 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tuesday | case |
| 6 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hours | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eighth | punct |
| 8 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 eighth | compound |
| 9 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tuesday | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eighth | appos |
| 14 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seven | cc |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hours | punct |
| 19 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | aux:pass |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 island | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 island | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Hawaii | case |
| 27 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 island | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · passive | earthquakes | the island of Hawaii | hour | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme over island=Location |
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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