Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 6
Properly speaking, the Hawaiian Island group should cover all the islands in this chain two thousand miles long.
Who acts: Island group · What happens: speak, cover · To what, where: islands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Island group), 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 | Properly | properly | ADV | _ | 2 speaking | advmod |
| 2 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cover | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaking | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 5 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Island | compound |
| 6 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | compound |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cover | aux |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 islands | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cover | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chain | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 chain | det |
| 15 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thousand | compound |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 long | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 cover | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | the Island group not said here | properly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | should | the Island group | all islands | in this chain; long property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Destination in chain=Theme |
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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