Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 176
The uhi-uha is in your crater [this means the sound of wash of lava is in the crater].
Who acts: uhi uha, this, sound · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: crater · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uhi uha, this, sound), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 uha | det |
| 2 | uhi | uhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uha | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 uhi | punct |
| 4 | uha | uha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crater | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crater | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 crater | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crater | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crater | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crater | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wash | case |
| 15 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sound | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lava | case |
| 17 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wash | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 crater | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 crater | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crater | det |
| 21 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | ccomp |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the uhi uha | your crater | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the sound of wash of lava | the crater | 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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