Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 14
Even the coral polyps had to have the edge of a crater to work on while building the innumerable coral reefs of the Pacific.
Who acts: coral polyps · What happens: have, work, build · To what, where: edge, innumerable coral reefs
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 (coral polyps), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 polyps | det |
| 3 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 polyps | amod |
| 4 | polyps | polyp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crater | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crater | det |
| 12 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 edge | acl |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 building | mark |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 building | mark |
| 17 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 work | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reefs | det |
| 19 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 reefs | amod |
| 20 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 21 reefs | compound |
| 21 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 building | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Pacific | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Pacific | det |
| 24 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reefs | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the coral polyps | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the coral polyps not said here | the edge of a crater | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the coral polyps not said here | the edge of a crater not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | build | gerund | the coral polyps not said here | the innumerable coral reefs of the Pacific | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reef=Product |
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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