Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 26
These plants break up the fire-rock very rapidly and send seeds broadcast to multiply soil-making activities.
Who acts: plants · What happens: break up, send, broadcast, multiply, make · To what, where: fire rock, seeds, making activities
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 (plants), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 plants | det |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | nsubj |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 break | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rock | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fire | punct |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 rapidly | advmod |
| 10 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 break | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 send | cc |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | conj |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 send | obj |
| 14 | broadcast | broadcast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 seeds | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 multiply | mark |
| 16 | multiply | multiply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 broadcast | xcomp |
| 17 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 soil | punct |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 activities | amod |
| 20 | activities | activity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 multiply | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present | this plants | the fire rock | rapidly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | present | this plants not said here | seeds | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | broadcast speech: other | participle | seeds not said here | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V when S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | multiply | to-infinitive | making activities | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | soil compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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