Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 6
Then as the brilliant light of the sun took the place of the glow of volcanic fires, clouds of eruptive gases and smoke marked the course of the lava in its flow down the mountain side.
Who acts: clouds, volcanic fires, lava · What happens: take, mark, light, glow, cloud, flow · To what, where: place, course, flow, sun, eruptive gases
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 (clouds, volcanic fires, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 took | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 4 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nmod |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 glow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glow | det |
| 14 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fires | case |
| 16 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fires | amod |
| 17 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glow | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clouds | punct |
| 19 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 marked | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gases | case |
| 21 | eruptive | eruptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gases | amod |
| 22 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 clouds | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 smoke | cc |
| 24 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gases | conj |
| 25 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 course | det |
| 27 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marked | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lava | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lava | det |
| 30 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 course | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 flow | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 flow | nmod:poss |
| 33 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marked | obl |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 side | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 side | compound |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marked | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the place of the glow of volcanic fires | then | as the brilliant light of the sun | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as light=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mark | past | clouds of eruptive gases and smoke | the course of the lava | lava's flow | down the mountain side | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme in flow=Destination | ||
| 3 | light | the sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | glow | volcanic fires | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | cloud | eruptive gases and smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | flow | lava | nom flow «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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