Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 32
In this place it is well to note a fact which makes the scientific study of the active fire-lake of living volcanoes a very valuable index of coming events.
Who acts: place, fact · What happens: be, make, live, come, study · To what, where: place, scientific study, active fire lake
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 (place, fact), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 note | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 note | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 note | cop |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 note | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 note | mark |
| 8 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fact | det |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 note | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fact | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 study | det |
| 14 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 study | amod |
| 15 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 18 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lake | amod |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lake | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fire | punct |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 study | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 volcanoes | case |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 volcanoes | amod |
| 24 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lake | nmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 index | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 valuable | advmod |
| 27 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 index | amod |
| 28 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 volcanoes | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 events | case |
| 30 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 events | amod |
| 31 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 index | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 note | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | place | this place | a fact obj; note, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | a fact | the scientific study of the active fire lake of living volcanoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset study=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | study | the active fire lake of living volcanoes | nom study «act 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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