Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 47
She stamped on the ground and floods of lava broke out, destroying many of the chiefs as they fled in every direction.
Who acts: Pele, floods, taunts, lava · What happens: stamp, break out, destroy, flee, flood · To what, where: ground, many, direction
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 (Pele, floods, taunts, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stamped | nsubj |
| 2 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stamped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 7 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lava | case |
| 9 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floods | nmod |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stamped | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 broke | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroying | punct |
| 13 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 broke | advcl |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 destroying | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chiefs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chiefs | det |
| 17 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 many | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 fled | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fled | nsubj |
| 20 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroying | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 direction | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 direction | det |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | Pele | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | ||||
| 2 | break out | past | floods of lava | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | destroy | gerund | floods of lava not said here | many of the chiefs | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flee | past | taunts = taunt | every direction | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flood | lava | nom flood «phenomenon 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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