Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 48
The watching people, overcome with wonder and fear, were turned into a multitude of pillars [2] of lava, never changing, never moving through all the ages.
Who acts: watching people · What happens: watch, overcome, turn, not change, not move · To what, where: watching people, multitude, ages
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 (watching people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wonder | case |
| 7 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fear | cc |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | aux:pass |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 multitude | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 multitude | det |
| 15 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pillars | case |
| 17 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitude | nmod |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 2 | punct |
| 19 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 turned | xcomp |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 2 | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lava | case |
| 22 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 2 | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changing | punct |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 changing | advmod |
| 25 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moving | punct |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 moving | advmod |
| 28 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 changing | conj |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 ages | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 ages | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ages | det |
| 32 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 moving | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | overcome | present | the watching people not said here | with wonder and fear | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | the watching people | a multitude of pillars | 2 of lava xcomp | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into multitude=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | not change | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not move | gerund | through all ages | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through age=Trajectory |
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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