Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 15

Some men of science say that the molten liquid, which is mostly an iron-stained glass, foamy with the intensely hot gases which escape from the inside of the earth, comes from an under layer beneath the outer crust of the earth, which would be found anywhere if we went down deep enough.

Who acts: men, molten liquid, hot gases, we · What happens: say, stain, be, escape, come, find · To what, where: stained glass, inside, layer, outer crust · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, molten liquid, hot gases, we), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 science	case
4	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 men	nmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 comes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 liquid	det
8	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 liquid	amod
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comes	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glass	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 glass	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 glass	cop
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	18 glass	advmod
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glass	det
15	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stained	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 iron	punct
17	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 glass	amod
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liquid	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 foamy	punct
20	foamy	foamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 glass	amod
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 gases	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gases	det
23	intensely	intensely	ADV	_	24 hot	advmod
24	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gases	amod
25	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 foamy	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 escape	nsubj
27	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 gases	acl:relcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 inside	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 inside	det
30	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escape	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 earth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 earth	det
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 inside	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 liquid	punct
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 layer	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 layer	det
38	under	under	ADP	_	39 layer	case
39	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comes	obl
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	43 crust	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 crust	det
42	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 crust	amod
43	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 layer	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 earth	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 earth	det
46	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 crust	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 found	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 found	nsubj:pass
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 found	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 found	aux:pass
51	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 crust	acl
52	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	51 found	advmod
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 went	mark
54	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 went	nsubj
55	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 found	advcl
56	down	down	ADV	_	57 deep	advmod
57	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 went	xcomp
58	enough	enough	ADV	_	57 deep	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some men of science				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stain	participle				iron compound	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the molten liquid	a stained glass		mostly property	tree rules
4	escape	present	the hot gases		the inside of the earth		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial_Location
5	come	present	the molten liquid		a layer beneath the outer crust of the earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from layer=Initial_Location
6	find	would · passive		the outer crust of the earth		anywhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
7	go down a condition, not said to happen	past	we			deep property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 15

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 15