Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 11
The surpassing sea depth now discovered may appropriately be named the “Planet” deep.
Who acts: surpassing sea depth · What happens: surpass, discover, name · To what, where: surpassing sea depth
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 (surpassing sea depth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 depth | det |
| 2 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 depth | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 depth | compound |
| 4 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 discovered | advmod |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 depth | acl:relcl |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 named | aux |
| 8 | appropriately | appropriately | ADV | _ | 10 named | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 named | aux:pass |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Planet | det |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Planet | punct |
| 13 | Planet | Planet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Planet | punct |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 10 named | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surpass | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | discover | past | the surpassing sea depth not said here | now | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | may · passive | the surpassing sea depth | the Planet xcomp; appropriately, deep property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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