Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 10
Then came Friday evening and a sky flooded with an ocean of fire.
What happens: come, flood · To what, where: sky
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | compound |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sky | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | conj |
| 8 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sky | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ocean | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ocean | det |
| 11 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flooded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ocean | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | then; evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flood | participle | a sky not said here | with a ocean of fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ocean=Instrument |
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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