Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 13
Sometimes the deposits are permeated with meteoric or star dust.
What happens: permeate · To what, where: deposits
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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 permeated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deposits | det |
| 3 | deposits | deposit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 permeated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 permeated | aux:pass |
| 5 | permeated | permeate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dust | case |
| 7 | meteoric | meteoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dust | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 star | cc |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dust | compound |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permeated | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permeate | present · passive | the deposits | with meteoric star dust; sometimes 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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