Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 21
Each island has its individual extinct craters, but no island has any form of hot geyser action such as characterizes the Yellowstone Park of the United States, or the region around Rotorua, New Zealand.
Who acts: island, hot geyser action · What happens: have, characterize, form · To what, where: individual extinct craters, form, Yellowstone Park, hot geyser action
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 (island, hot geyser action), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 craters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 craters | amod |
| 6 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 craters | amod |
| 7 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 action | case |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 action | amod |
| 17 | geyser | geyser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 action | compound |
| 18 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 characterizes | mark |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | characterizes | characterize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 action | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Park | det |
| 23 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Park | compound |
| 24 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 characterizes | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 States | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 States | det |
| 27 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 States | amod |
| 28 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Park | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 region | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 region | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 region | det |
| 32 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Park | appos |
| 33 | around | around | ADP | _ | 34 Rotorua | case |
| 34 | Rotorua | Rotorua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 region | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Zealand | punct |
| 36 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Zealand | flat |
| 37 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Rotorua | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each island | place's individual extinct craters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | no island | any form of hot geyser action | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient | ||||
| 3 | characterize | present | hot geyser action not said here | the Yellowstone Park of the United States | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent park=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | hot geyser action | nom form «communication 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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