Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 8
Puffs of smoke by day and pillars of fire by night marked the course of this underground channel.
Who acts: Puffs, day · What happens: mark, puff, smoke · To what, where: course, smoke
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 (Puffs, day), 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 | Puffs | puff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 smoke | case |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puffs | nmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoke | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pillars | cc |
| 7 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smoke | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pillars | nmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obl |
| 12 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 course | det |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 channel | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 channel | det |
| 17 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 channel | amod |
| 18 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 course | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Puffs of smoke by day and pillars of fire | the course of this underground channel | night | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Destination | |||
| 2 | puff | smoke by day and pillars of fire | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | smoke | day | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: by=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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