Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 5
For some hours great floods of lava poured forth with extraordinary activity, quickly covering a vast area of land on the side of the mountain about four thousand feet below the summit crater.
Who acts: great floods, lava · What happens: pour, cover, flood · To what, where: lava, vast area, side, great floods
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 (great floods, lava), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hours | det |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 floods | obl |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 floods | amod |
| 5 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lava | case |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floods | nmod |
| 8 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lava | acl |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 poured | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 activity | case |
| 11 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 activity | amod |
| 12 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covering | punct |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 covering | advmod |
| 15 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 floods | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 area | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 area | amod |
| 18 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covering | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 area | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covering | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mountain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mountain | det |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 thousand | advmod |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 thousand | compound |
| 29 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 feet | nummod |
| 30 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covering | obj |
| 31 | below | below | ADP | _ | 34 crater | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 crater | det |
| 33 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 crater | compound |
| 34 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 feet | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 floods | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | participle | lava not said here | with extraordinary activity; forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with activity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | great floods for some hours of lava not said here | a vast area of land | the side of the mountain | thousand feet obj; quickly property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | flood | lava | nom flood «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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