Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 29

Lava always cools rapidly on the surface, therefore, as the lava spread out through the forest, very soon there was a great floor of hot black stone pierced by a multitude of trees.

Who acts: Lava · What happens: cool, spread out, be, pierce · To what, where: surface, forest, great floor, hot black stone

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 cools	advmod
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	3 cools	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 surface	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 surface	det
7	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 therefore	punct
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 cools	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 spread	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lava	det
13	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	nsubj
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cools	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 spread	compound:prt
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 floor	punct
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 was	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 floor	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 floor	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 floor	amod
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 stone	case
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stone	amod
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stone	amod
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 floor	nmod
31	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 stone	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 multitude	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 multitude	det
34	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pierced	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 trees	case
36	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 multitude	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cools	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cool	present	Lava		the surface	always, rapidly, therefore property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	spread out	past	the lava		the forest		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location
3	is a	past		a great floor		of hot black stone	tree rules
4	pierce	participle		hot black stone not said here		by a multitude of trees	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 29