Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 18
The building of these islands has been a most stupendous task, and the chains of islands resulting from the tremendous volcanic energy still exhibit immense activity.
Who acts: building, islands, chains · What happens: be, result, exhibit · To what, where: stupendous task, tremendous volcanic energy, immense activity
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 (building, islands, chains), 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 | 2 building | det |
| 2 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 task | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 building | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 task | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 task | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 task | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 stupendous | advmod |
| 10 | stupendous | stupendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 task | amod |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exhibit | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 exhibit | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chains | det |
| 15 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exhibit | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 islands | case |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chains | nmod |
| 18 | resulting | result | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 islands | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 energy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 energy | det |
| 21 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 energy | amod |
| 22 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 energy | amod |
| 23 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resulting | obl |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 exhibit | advmod |
| 25 | exhibit | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 task | conj |
| 26 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 activity | amod |
| 27 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exhibit | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 task | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | the building of this islands | a stupendous task | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | result | gerund | islands not said here | the tremendous volcanic energy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exhibit | present | the chains of islands | immense activity | still | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=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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