Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 6
The ohia forests grow abundantly and rapidly on lava even recently thrown out by the eruptions from Pele’s lake of fire.
Who acts: ohia forests · What happens: grow, throw out · To what, where: lava
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ohia forests), 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 forests | det |
| 2 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forests | compound |
| 3 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 4 grow | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rapidly | cc |
| 7 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 5 abundantly | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lava | case |
| 9 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 thrown | advmod |
| 11 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 12 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grow | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 thrown | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 eruptions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eruptions | det |
| 16 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thrown | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 18 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Pele | case |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the ohia forests | abundantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw out | participle | the ohia forests not said here | lava | by the eruptions; from Pele's lake of fire; recently property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on lava=Destination |
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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