Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 9
Perhaps its surface was all covered with vast circular lakes of lava such as our telescopes reveal in great perfection, ring upon ring, over the surface of the moon.
Who acts: telescopes · What happens: cover, reveal · To what, where: surface, lava, great perfection
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 (telescopes), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 covered | advmod |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surface | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 covered | advmod |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lakes | case |
| 8 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lakes | amod |
| 9 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lakes | amod |
| 10 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lava | case |
| 12 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lakes | nmod |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 telescopes | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 telescopes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reveal | nsubj |
| 17 | reveal | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lava | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 perfection | case |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 perfection | amod |
| 20 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reveal | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ring | punct |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perfection | appos |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 ring | case |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ring | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 surface | punct |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 surface | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 surface | det |
| 28 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 moon | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moon | det |
| 31 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 surface | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | way's surface | the surface of the moon | with vast circular lakes of lava; all, perhaps property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lake=Theme | |||
| 2 | reveal | present | our telescopes | lava not said here | great perfection | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lava=Topic |
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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