Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 79

When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all his fertile plain was black with lava, still burning and pouring out constantly volumes of dense smoke.

Who acts: winds, prophet, fertile plain · What happens: lift, roll away, see, be, burn, pour out · To what, where: clouds, volumes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (winds, prophet, fertile plain), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lifted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winds	det
3	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clouds	det
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rolling	punct
8	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lifted	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rolling	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 rolling	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 black	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 plain	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 plain	nmod:poss
17	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plain	amod
18	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 black	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 black	cop
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 lava	case
22	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 black	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burning	punct
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 burning	advmod
25	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pouring	cc
27	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 burning	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 pouring	compound:prt
29	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	27 pouring	advmod
30	volumes	volume	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pouring	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 smoke	case
32	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 smoke	amod
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 volumes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the winds	the clouds			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
2	roll away	gerund	the winds not said here	clouds = cloud		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent
3	see	past	prophet				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	prophet's fertile plain			with lava; black property	tree rules
5	burn	gerund	prophet not said here		still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pour out	gerund	prophet not said here	volumes of dense smoke		constantly property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient

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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 79