Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 8
Between this majestic range of island mountains and the “Giants of the Rockies,” along the western coast of the United States, lies a rough ocean valley abounding in hills and deep ravines with an average depth under the sea-surface of about 2,600 fathoms, or 15,600 feet.
Who acts: rough ocean valley · What happens: lie, abound · To what, where: rough ocean valley, hills
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 (rough ocean valley), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 4 range | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 range | det |
| 3 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 range | amod |
| 4 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lies | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | compound |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 range | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Giants | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Giants | det |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Giants | punct |
| 11 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 mountains | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Rockies | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rockies | det |
| 14 | Rockies | Rocky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Giants | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 range | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 range | punct |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 coast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 19 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coast | amod |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 range | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 States | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 States | det |
| 23 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 States | amod |
| 24 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 coast | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 range | punct |
| 26 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 valley | det |
| 28 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 valley | amod |
| 29 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 valley | compound |
| 30 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lies | obj |
| 31 | abounding | abound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 valley | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hills | case |
| 33 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 abounding | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ravines | cc |
| 35 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ravines | amod |
| 36 | ravines | ravine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hills | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 depth | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 depth | det |
| 39 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 depth | amod |
| 40 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 abounding | obl |
| 41 | under | under | ADP | _ | 45 surface | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 surface | det |
| 43 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 surface | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 sea | punct |
| 45 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 abounding | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 fathoms | case |
| 47 | about | about | ADV | _ | 48 2,600 | advmod |
| 48 | 2,600 | 2,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 fathoms | nummod |
| 49 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 surface | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 feet | punct |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 feet | cc |
| 52 | 15,600 | 15,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 53 feet | nummod |
| 53 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 surface | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a rough ocean valley | between this majestic range of island mountains the Giants of the Rockies along the western coast of the United States | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme | ||||
| 2 | abound | gerund | a rough ocean valley not said here | hills and deep ravines | with a average depth; under the sea surface of 2,600 fathoms or 15,600 feet | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |
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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