Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 75
But Pele leaped from the flowing lava and threw her burning arms around the nearest one of her former lovers.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: leap, flow, throw, burn · To what, where: flowing lava, Pele, arms
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 leaped | cc |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 lava | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lava | det |
| 6 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 lava | amod |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 threw | advcl |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burning | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lovers | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lovers | amod |
| 20 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Pele | the flowing lava | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lava=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | throw | past | Pele not said here | Pele | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | Pele not said here | arms | around the nearest one of Pele's former lovers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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