Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 25
This would appear to be a crisis reached every few centuries, and perhaps dependent on a building up of the mountain by lava to a certain height where the foam column is so confined that it can no longer overflow and so is compelled to explode.
Who acts: This, crisis · What happens: appear, be, build, confine, overflow, compel · To what, where: foam column
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, crisis), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | aux |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reached | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crisis | det |
| 7 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | advcl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 centuries | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 centuries | amod |
| 11 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dependent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dependent | cc |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 dependent | advmod |
| 15 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appear | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 up | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 up | det |
| 18 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 up | amod |
| 19 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dependent | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 up | nmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 lava | case |
| 24 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dependent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 height | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 height | det |
| 27 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 height | amod |
| 28 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lava | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 confined | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 column | det |
| 31 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 column | compound |
| 32 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 confined | aux:pass |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 confined | advmod |
| 35 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 height | acl:relcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 overflow | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 overflow | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 overflow | aux |
| 39 | no | no | ADV | _ | 40 longer | advmod |
| 40 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 overflow | advmod |
| 41 | overflow | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 confined | advcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 compelled | cc |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 compelled | advmod |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 compelled | aux:pass |
| 45 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dependent | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 explode | mark |
| 47 | explode | explode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 compelled | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | would | This | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | a crisis | century | reach property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | build | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | confine | present · passive | the foam column | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | overflow | can | crisis | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | compel | present · passive | This not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | explode | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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