Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 4
It is interesting to note that the oldest, the smallest, and the lowest of these islands lie nearest to Japan.
Who acts: lowest · What happens: be, note, lie
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 (lowest), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 interesting | cop |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 note | mark |
| 5 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 interesting | csubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 oldest | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oldest | det |
| 8 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 note | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smallest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smallest | det |
| 11 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 oldest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lie | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lowest | det |
| 15 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 lie | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lowest | obl |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 interesting | parataxis |
| 20 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 lie | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Japan | case |
| 22 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nearest | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | note | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lie | present | the lowest of this islands | vn assuming_position-50 «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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