Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 19
The volcanic outbreaks and earthquakes of the Japanese islands from Nippon to Formosa are so frequent as to afford an excellent field for study.
Who acts: volcanic outbreaks · What happens: be, afford · To what, where: excellent field
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 (volcanic outbreaks), 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 | 3 outbreaks | det |
| 2 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 outbreaks | amod |
| 3 | outbreaks | outbreak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frequent | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 earthquakes | cc |
| 5 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 outbreaks | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 islands | det |
| 8 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 islands | amod |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 outbreaks | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Nippon | case |
| 11 | Nippon | Nippon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 islands | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Formosa | case |
| 13 | Formosa | Formosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nippon | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 frequent | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 frequent | advmod |
| 16 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 afford | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 afford | mark |
| 19 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 frequent | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 21 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 field | amod |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afford | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 study | case |
| 24 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 field | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the volcanic outbreaks of the Japanese islands from Nippon to Formosa and earthquakes | frequent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | afford | to-infinitive | the volcanic outbreaks of the Japanese islands from Nippon to Formosa and earthquakes not said here | a excellent field | for study | tree rules |
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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