Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 1
Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous.
Who acts: Hawaiian Islands · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian Islands), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 groups | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 groups | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 groups | det |
| 4 | noteworthy | noteworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 groups | amod |
| 5 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 groups | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rock | compound |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 islands | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Ocean | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ocean | det |
| 13 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ocean | compound |
| 14 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rock | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stupendous | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Islands | det |
| 17 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Islands | compound |
| 18 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 stupendous | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 stupendous | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stupendous | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 stupendous | advmod |
| 22 | stupendous | stupendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ocean | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groups | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Hawaiian Islands | stupendous 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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