Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 3
This light filled the sky above the mountain and was visible from all parts of the island.
Who acts: light · What happens: fill, be · To what, where: sky, mountain, parts
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 (light), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 visible | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 visible | cop |
| 11 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 filled | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 parts | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 parts | det |
| 14 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 visible | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this light | the sky | the mountain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | this light not said here | all parts of the island | visible property | tree rules |
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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