Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 10
On the moon these rings and pits are now cold, remnant from a time when the gases from the inside of our satellite were bubbling forth from a great internal heat supply and bringing with them oceans of slag which seethed and swirled in circular pools which formed symmetrically within ramparts of their own spatter.
Who acts: rings, gases, slag, circular pools · What happens: be, bubble, bring, seethe, swirl, form · To what, where: moon, great internal heat supply, oceans, circular pools
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rings, gases, slag, circular pools), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cold | obl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 rings | det |
| 5 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cold | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pits | cc |
| 7 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rings | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cold | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cold | advmod |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remnant | punct |
| 12 | remnant | remnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bubbling | mark |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remnant | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 bubbling | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gases | det |
| 18 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bubbling | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 inside | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 inside | det |
| 21 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gases | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 satellite | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 satellite | nmod:poss |
| 24 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inside | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bubbling | aux |
| 26 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cold | advcl |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 26 bubbling | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 supply | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 supply | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 supply | amod |
| 31 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 supply | amod |
| 32 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 supply | compound |
| 33 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bubbling | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bringing | cc |
| 35 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 bubbling | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bringing | obl |
| 38 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bringing | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 slag | case |
| 40 | slag | slag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 oceans | nmod |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 seethed | nsubj |
| 42 | seethed | seethe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 slag | acl:relcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 swirled | cc |
| 44 | swirled | swirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 seethed | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 pools | case |
| 46 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pools | amod |
| 47 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 swirled | obl |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 formed | nsubj |
| 49 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 pools | acl:relcl |
| 50 | symmetrically | symmetrically | ADV | _ | 49 formed | advmod |
| 51 | within | within | ADP | _ | 52 ramparts | case |
| 52 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 formed | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 spatter | case |
| 54 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 spatter | nmod:poss |
| 55 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 spatter | amod |
| 56 | spatter | spatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 ramparts | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this rings and pits | the moon | now | cold property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bubble | past · progressive | the gases from the inside of our satellite | a great internal heat supply | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from supply=Source | |||
| 3 | bring | gerund | the gases from the inside of our satellite not said here | oceans of slag | with gases = gas | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme | |||
| 4 | seethe | past | slag | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | swirl | participle | slag not said here | circular pools | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location | ||||
| 6 | form | past | circular pools | within ramparts of gases's own spatter; symmetrically property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | spatter | gases = gas | nom spatter «event transitive»: poss=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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