Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 13
It seems absolutely necessary to recognize the cracks in the floor of the ocean through which the vast floods of lava were forced for the upbuilding of these islands.
Who acts: It, lava · What happens: seem, recognize, force, flood · To what, where: cracks, floor, vast floods, ocean
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 (It, lava), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 2 seems | advmod |
| 4 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 recognize | mark |
| 6 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cracks | det |
| 8 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recognize | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognize | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ocean | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ocean | det |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 floor | nmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 forced | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floods | det |
| 18 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 floods | amod |
| 19 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lava | case |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 floods | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forced | aux:pass |
| 23 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 upbuilding | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 upbuilding | det |
| 26 | upbuilding | upbuilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forced | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 islands | case |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 islands | det |
| 29 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 upbuilding | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | absolutely, necessary property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | recognize | to-infinitive | the cracks | the floor of the ocean | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the vast floods of lava | the ocean | for the upbuilding of this islands | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | flood | lava | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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