Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 7
Moreover, for nearly two days the lava found an underground channel from which it burst forth at times with explosions attended by earthquakes which shook the western coast of the island.
Who acts: lava, earthquakes · What happens: find, burst, attend, shake · To what, where: underground channel, explosions, western coast
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 (lava, earthquakes), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 two | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lava | det |
| 8 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 channel | det |
| 11 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 channel | amod |
| 12 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 burst | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 burst | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 times | case |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burst | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 explosions | case |
| 21 | explosions | explosion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burst | obl |
| 22 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 explosions | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 earthquakes | case |
| 24 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attended | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 shook | nsubj |
| 26 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 earthquakes | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coast | det |
| 28 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 coast | amod |
| 29 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shook | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 island | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 island | det |
| 32 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coast | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the lava | a underground channel | day | moreover property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Topic | ||
| 2 | burst | past | lava | time | with explosions; which obl; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | attend | participle | explosions not said here | by earthquakes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by earthquake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | earthquakes | the western coast of the island | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
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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