Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 23
Leahi was evidently forced up through coral reefs and the mighty heat produced small layers of geyser-like deposits.
Who acts: mighty heat · What happens: force up, produce · To what, where: Leahi, coral reefs, small layers
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 (mighty heat), 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 | Leahi | Leahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 3 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 4 forced | advmod |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 forced | compound:prt |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 reefs | case |
| 7 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 8 reefs | compound |
| 8 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forced | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heat | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heat | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heat | amod |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reefs | conj |
| 13 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heat | acl |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 layers | amod |
| 15 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 produced | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 deposits | case |
| 17 | geyser | geyser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 geyser | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deposits | amod |
| 20 | deposits | deposit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 layers | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force up | past · passive | Leahi | coral reefs and the mighty heat | evidently property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | produce | participle | the mighty heat not said here | small layers of like deposits | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Result |
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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