Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 30
Kilauea is about 4,000 feet altitude, while Mokuaweoweo is nearly 10,000 feet higher and is on the summit of Mauna Loa.
Who acts: Kilauea, Mokuaweoweo · What happens: be · To what, where: feet altitude, summit
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 (Kilauea, Mokuaweoweo), 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 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 altitude | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 altitude | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 4,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 feet | nummod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 altitude | compound |
| 6 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 higher | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 higher | mark |
| 9 | Mokuaweoweo | Mokuaweoweo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 higher | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 higher | cop |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 10,000 | advmod |
| 12 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 altitude | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 summit | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 summit | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 summit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 summit | det |
| 19 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 higher | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Mauna | case |
| 21 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 summit | nmod |
| 22 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mauna | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 altitude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kilauea | feet altitude | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Mokuaweoweo | 10,000 feet obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Mokuaweoweo not said here | the summit | of Mauna | 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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