Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 4
This island was one of the first on which volcanic fires were extinct.
Who acts: island, volcanic fires · What happens: be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island, volcanic fires), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 fires | det |
| 10 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fires | amod |
| 11 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 extinct | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 extinct | cop |
| 13 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this island | one | of the first | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | which volcanic fires | extinct property | tree rules |
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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