Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 12

The line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna Loa on the large island of Hawaii is such a curved ridge, now of enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific, but perhaps at one time much lower and more extended into something like a circle.

Who acts: line · What happens: curve, be, extend · To what, where: curved ridge, one time, something

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 (line), 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	2 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ridge	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Islands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Islands	det
5	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Islands	compound
6	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 line	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Kauai	case
8	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Islands	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Mauna	case
10	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Islands	nmod
11	Loa	Loa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mauna	flat
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 island	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 island	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 island	amod
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 line	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Hawaii	case
17	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 island	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ridge	cop
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 ridge	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ridge	det
21	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ridge	amod
22	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 height	punct
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 height	advmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 height	case
26	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 height	amod
27	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ridge	conj
28	above	above	ADP	_	30 bottom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bottom	det
30	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 height	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Pacific	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Pacific	det
33	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bottom	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 time	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 time	cc
36	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	39 time	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 time	nummod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ridge	obl:unmarked
40	much	much	ADV	_	41 lower	advmod
41	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 extended	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 extended	cc
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 extended	advmod
44	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 time	acl:relcl
45	into	into	ADP	_	46 something	case
46	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 extended	obl
47	like	like	ADP	_	49 circle	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 circle	det
49	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 something	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 ridge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	participle						vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	is a	present	the line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna on the large island of Hawaii	such curved ridge and enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific		time	enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific conj	tree rules
3	extend	participle		one time not said here	something like a circle		low property	vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into something=Path

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), Opening, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 12