Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 18
Possibly the gases unite chemically with each other and so themselves produce some of the heat.
Who acts: gases · What happens: unite, produce · To what, where: some
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 (gases), 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 | Possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 4 unite | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gases | det |
| 3 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unite | nsubj |
| 4 | unite | unite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | chemically | chemically | ADV | _ | 4 unite | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 unite | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 produce | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 produce | advmod |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 produce | nsubj |
| 12 | produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unite | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 produce | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 heat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heat | det |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unite | infinitive | the gases | with each; chemically, possibly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with each=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | produce | present | gases = gas | some of the heat | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Result |
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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