Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 12
There are several very interesting “blowholes” in this lava.
Who acts: several interesting blowholes · What happens: be · To what, where: lava
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several interesting blowholes), 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 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blowholes | amod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blowholes | amod |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blowholes | punct |
| 7 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blowholes | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lava | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lava | det |
| 11 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | several interesting blowholes | this lava; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lava=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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