Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 13
Meanwhile, as this lava flow was making its descent, another branch broke away westward.
Who acts: lava flow, branch, flow · What happens: make, break away, descend · To what, where: descent
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: who acts (lava flow, branch, flow), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 14 broke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 flow | det |
| 5 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flow | compound |
| 6 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | aux |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 broke | advcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 descent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | nsubj |
| 14 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 broke | advmod |
| 16 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 14 broke | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | this lava flow | flow's descent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset descent=Product | ||||
| 2 | break away | past | another branch | away, meanwhile, westward property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | descend | flow | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=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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