Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 79
In a moment Pele seized him and called for another outburst of lava, which rose up rapidly around them.
Who acts: Pele, lava · What happens: seize, call, rise up · To what, where: gush · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 outburst | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 outburst | det |
| 11 | outburst | outburst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lava | case |
| 13 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outburst | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lava | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rose | compound:prt |
| 18 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 16 rose | advmod |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Pele | gush | moment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past | Pele not said here | for another outburst of lava | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for outburst=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | rise up | past | lava | around fear; rapidly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around they=Location |
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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