Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 18
This was sometimes called “The Bottomless Lake,” and was supposed to go down deep into the heart of the mountain.
What happens: call, suppose, go down · To what, where: This, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lake | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lake | det |
| 7 | Bottomless | Bottomless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lake | compound |
| 8 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lake | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lake | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 supposed | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 supposed | aux:pass |
| 13 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 supposed | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 20 heart | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | This | the Bottomless Lake xcomp; sometimes property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go down | to-infinitive | the heart of the mountain | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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