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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 17

However this may be, there is some agreement that the depth from which the liquids come is about seventy miles and we know that vast quantities of gas escape with them.

Who acts: this, liquids, depth, we, vast quantities · What happens: be, come, know, escape · To what, where: agreement, depth, seventy miles · 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 (this, liquids, depth, 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

advmodnsubjauxcoppunctexplcopdetmarkdetnsubjcaseobldetnsubjacl:relclcopadvmodamodadvclccnsubjconjmarkamodnsubjcasenmodccompcaseoblpunctrootHoweverADVthisPRONmayAUXbeAUX,PUNCTtherePRONisAUXsomeDETagreementNOUNthatSCONJtheDETdepthNOUNfromADPwhichPRONtheDETliquidsNOUNcomeVERBisAUXaboutADVseventyADJmilesNOUNandCCONJwePRONknowVERBthatSCONJvastADJquantitiesNOUNofADPgasNOUNescapeVERBwithADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_9 agreementadvmod
2thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 agreementnsubj
3maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin9 agreementaux
4bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf9 agreementcop
5,,PUNCT_7 ispunct
6theretherePRONPronType=Dem7 isexpl
7isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 agreementcop
8somesomeDETPronType=Ind9 agreementdet
9agreementagreementNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
10thatthatSCONJ_21 milesmark
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 depthdet
12depthdepthNOUNNumber=Sing21 milesnsubj
13fromfromADP_14 whichcase
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 comeobl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 liquidsdet
16liquidsliquidNOUNNumber=Plur17 comensubj
17comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 depthacl:relcl
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 milescop
19aboutaboutADV_21 milesadvmod
20seventyseventyADJDegree=Pos21 milesamod
21milesmileNOUNNumber=Plur9 agreementadvcl
22andandCCONJ_24 knowcc
23wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 knownsubj
24knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 agreementconj
25thatthatSCONJ_30 escapemark
26vastvastADJDegree=Pos27 quantitiesamod
27quantitiesquantityNOUNNumber=Plur30 escapensubj
28ofofADP_29 gascase
29gasgasNOUNNumber=Sing27 quantitiesnmod
30escapeescapeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 knowccomp
31withwithADP_32 themcase
32themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 escapeobl
33..PUNCT_9 agreementpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is amaythissome agreementhowever propertytree rules
2comepresentthe liquidsthe depthvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
3is apresentthe depthseventy milesabout propertytree rules
4knowpresentwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5escapepresentvast quantities of gaswith gases = gasvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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