Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 12
The disintegration of pumice is given as the chief source for the formation of this clayey matter.
What happens: give, disintegrate · To what, where: disintegration, pumice
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: 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 | 2 disintegration | det |
| 2 | disintegration | disintegration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pumice | case |
| 4 | pumice | pumice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disintegration | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 source | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 source | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 source | amod |
| 10 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 formation | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 formation | det |
| 13 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 matter | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 matter | det |
| 16 | clayey | clayey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 matter | amod |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 formation | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the disintegration of pumice | as the chief source; for the formation of this clayey matter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for formation=Asset | ||||
| 2 | disintegrate | pumice | nom disintegration «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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