Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 22
The nearest approach to a geyser deposit such as abounds in central Mexico is found on Molokai and around the small crater Leahi (Diamond Head), near Honolulu.
Who acts: geyser deposit · What happens: abound, find · To what, where: central Mexico, nearest approach, Molokai
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 (geyser deposit), 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 | 3 approach | det |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 approach | amod |
| 3 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 deposit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deposit | det |
| 6 | geyser | geyser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deposit | compound |
| 7 | deposit | deposit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approach | nmod |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 abounds | mark |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | abounds | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deposit | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Mexico | case |
| 12 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Mexico | amod |
| 13 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 abounds | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Molokai | case |
| 17 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crater | cc |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 crater | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crater | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 crater | amod |
| 22 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Molokai | conj |
| 23 | Leahi | Leahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crater | appos |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Head | punct |
| 25 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Head | compound |
| 26 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Leahi | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Head | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Honolulu | punct |
| 29 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 Honolulu | case |
| 30 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abound | present | a geyser deposit not said here | central Mexico | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | the nearest approach to a geyser deposit | Molokai and the small crater | near Honolulu | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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