Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 64
On the crest of the falling torrent of fire rode Pele, flashing the fires of her anger in great explosions above the flood.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: fall, ride, flash, fire, anger · To what, where: Pele, crest, fires, anger
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 (Pele), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 crest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crest | det |
| 3 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 torrent | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 torrent | det |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 torrent | amod |
| 7 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crest | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 torrent | nmod |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flashing | punct |
| 13 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rode | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fires | det |
| 15 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flashing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 anger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fires | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 explosions | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 explosions | amod |
| 21 | explosions | explosion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flashing | obl |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 flood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flood | det |
| 24 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 explosions | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ride | past | Pele | the crest of the falling torrent of fire | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flash | gerund | the fires of Pele's anger | in great explosions above the flood | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Patient in explosion=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fire | Pele's anger | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | anger | Pele | nom anger «feeling 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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