Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 16
Others say that it comes from scattered pockets of liquid under a stiff shell and over a stiffer inner globe.
Who acts: Others, liquid · What happens: say, come · To what, where: scattered pockets · 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 (Others, liquid), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pockets | case |
| 7 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 8 pockets | amod |
| 8 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comes | obl | |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 liquid | case |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pockets | nmod |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 shell | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shell | det |
| 13 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shell | amod |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 globe | cc |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 globe | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 globe | det |
| 18 | stiffer | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 globe | amod |
| 19 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 globe | amod |
| 20 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shell | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | present | liquid | scattered pockets of liquid | under a stiff shell and a stiffer inner globe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location |
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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