Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 10
Pumice and scoriæ appear to be universally distributed on the bottom of the ocean.
Who acts: Pumice · What happens: appear, distribute · To what, where: bottom
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 (Pumice), 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 | Pumice | pumice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 scoriæ | cc |
| 3 | scoriæ | scoriæ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pumice | conj |
| 4 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 distributed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 distributed | aux:pass |
| 7 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 8 distributed | advmod |
| 8 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appear | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distributed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ocean | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ocean | det |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Pumice and scoriæ | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | distribute | to-infinitive · passive | Pumice and scoriæ not said here | the bottom of the ocean | universally property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |
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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