Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 21
Sudden uncorking is an apt simile for volcanoes in general, as most of them, unlike Kilauea, erupt very suddenly and explosively.
Who acts: Sudden uncorking, most · What happens: be, erupt · To what, where: apt simile
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 (Sudden uncorking, most), 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 | Sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uncorking | amod |
| 2 | uncorking | uncorking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 simile | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 simile | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 simile | det |
| 5 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 simile | amod |
| 6 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 volcanoes | case |
| 8 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 simile | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 general | case |
| 10 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 volcanoes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 most | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 most | case |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 erupt | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 most | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Kilauea | punct |
| 17 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 18 Kilauea | case |
| 18 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 most | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Kilauea | punct |
| 20 | erupt | erupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 simile | parataxis |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 suddenly | advmod |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 erupt | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 explosively | cc |
| 24 | explosively | explosively | ADV | _ | 22 suddenly | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 simile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sudden uncorking | a apt simile | for volcanoes in general | tree rules | |||
| 2 | erupt | present | most of uncorking | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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