Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 63
Then the awful fiery flood broke from the underworld, and swept down over Kahuku.
Who acts: awful fiery flood · What happens: break, sweep down · To what, where: Kahuku
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 (awful fiery flood), 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 | 6 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flood | det |
| 3 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flood | amod |
| 4 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flood | amod |
| 5 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 underworld | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 underworld | det |
| 9 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swept | cc |
| 12 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 swept | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 Kahuku | case |
| 15 | Kahuku | Kahuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 swept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the awful fiery flood | then | from the underworld | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from underworld=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | sweep down | past | the awful fiery flood not said here | Kahuku | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kahuku=Trajectory |
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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