Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 17
There is a beautiful lake glistening in one of the crater-cones on the summit of the mountain.
Who acts: beautiful lake · What happens: be, glisten
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful lake), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lake | amod |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lake | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 glistening | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cones | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cones | det |
| 11 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cones | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 crater | punct |
| 13 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 summit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 summit | det |
| 16 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cones | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 summit | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a beautiful lake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glisten | gerund | a beautiful lake not said here | in one of the crater cones on the summit of the mountain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
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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