Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 9
Thus for nearly three days the country throbbed with excitement because of the uncertainty attending the continued action of the lava flow.
Who acts: country, uncertainty, lava flow · What happens: throb, attend, continue, act · To what, where: continued action
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 (country, uncertainty, lava flow), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 throbbed | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 three | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 throbbed | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throbbed | nsubj |
| 8 | throbbed | throb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 excitement | case |
| 10 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throbbed | obl |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 uncertainty | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 uncertainty | det |
| 14 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throbbed | obl |
| 15 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 uncertainty | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 action | det |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 action | amod |
| 18 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attending | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flow | det |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flow | compound |
| 22 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 action | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 throbbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throb | participle | the country | day | with excitement; because the uncertainty; thus property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | attend | gerund | the uncertainty not said here | the continued action of the lava flow | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme action=Goal | ||||
| 3 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | act | the lava flow | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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