Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 35
There is definitely a daily movement marked in the lava level of the fire-pit of Kilauea, and there is a marked semi-annual high level.”
Who acts: daily movement, marked semi-annual high level · What happens: be, mark · To what, where: daily movement, lava level
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 (daily movement, marked semi-annual high level), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 movement | det |
| 5 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 movement | amod |
| 6 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 movement | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 level | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 level | det |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 level | compound |
| 11 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pit | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pit | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 level | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kilauea | case |
| 18 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 is | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 level | det |
| 24 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 level | amod |
| 25 | semi-annual | semi-annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 level | amod |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 level | amod |
| 27 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a daily movement | there | definitely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mark | participle | a daily movement not said here | the lava level of the fire pit of Kilauea | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in level=Destination | ||||
| 3 | be | present | a marked semi-annual high level | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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