Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 2
Soon after midnight as the stars of the new day Wednesday, January ninth, looked down on the melting snows of Mauna Loa, a glorious fire-light broke out on the southern slope.
Who acts: glorious fire light, Mauna · What happens: look down, break out, snow · To what, where: southern slope
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 (glorious fire light, Mauna), 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 | 16 looked | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 stars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stars | det |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Wednesday | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wednesday | compound |
| 11 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stars | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ninth | punct |
| 13 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ninth | compound |
| 14 | ninth | ninth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wednesday | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stars | punct |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 snows | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snows | det |
| 20 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snows | compound |
| 21 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Mauna | case |
| 23 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 snows | nmod |
| 24 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mauna | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 broke | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 light | det |
| 27 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 light | amod |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 light | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fire | punct |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 broke | nsubj |
| 31 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 broke | compound:prt |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 slope | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 slope | det |
| 35 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 slope | amod |
| 36 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 broke | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | as the stars of day Wednesday; on the melting snows of Mauna; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on snow=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break out | past | a glorious fire light | the southern slope | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=Location | ||||
| 3 | snow | Mauna | nom snow «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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