Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 1
A geological or earthquake map of the Pacific shows that the ocean is bordered by ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side, and by a long chain of volcanic islands, such as the Aleutian, Japanese, and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia.
Who acts: geological earthquake map, ranges · What happens: show, border · To what, where: ocean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geological earthquake map, ranges), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 map | det |
| 2 | geological | geological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 map | amod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 earthquake | cc |
| 4 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | compound |
| 5 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Pacific | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pacific | det |
| 8 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 map | nmod |
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 bordered | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ocean | det |
| 12 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bordered | aux:pass |
| 14 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shows | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 ranges | case |
| 16 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bordered | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mountains | amod |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ranges | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 22 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 side | amod |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mountains | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 chain | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 chain | cc |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 chain | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chain | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chain | amod |
| 29 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 islands | case |
| 31 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 islands | amod |
| 32 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 chain | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Aleutian | punct |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 37 Aleutian | case |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 such | fixed |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Aleutian | det |
| 37 | Aleutian | Aleutian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 islands | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Japanese | punct |
| 39 | Japanese | Japanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Aleutian | flat |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 islands | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 islands | cc |
| 42 | Formosa | Formosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 islands | compound |
| 43 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Aleutian | conj |
| 44 | along | along | ADP | _ | 46 coast | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 coast | det |
| 46 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 islands | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Asia | case |
| 48 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 coast | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a geological earthquake map of the Pacific | a long chain of volcanic islands such the Aleutian and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia conj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | border | present · passive | ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side | the ocean | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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