Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 2
It is also clear that between America and Asia connected islands built up by volcanic action follow what appear to be cracks in the floor of the Pacific.
Who acts: islands · What happens: be, connect, build up, follow, appear · To what, where: islands, cracks, floor
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 (islands), 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 | 4 clear | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 clear | advmod |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 connected | mark |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connected | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Asia | cc |
| 9 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 America | conj |
| 10 | connected | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | advcl |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 islands | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 built | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 action | case |
| 15 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 action | amod |
| 16 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 connected | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 appear | nsubj |
| 19 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 follow | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cracks | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cracks | cop |
| 22 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 appear | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 floor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 floor | det |
| 25 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cracks | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Pacific | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Pacific | det |
| 28 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 floor | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | connect | past | between America and Asia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | build up | participle | islands not said here | by volcanic action | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | present | islands | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | appear | present | what nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | cracks | the floor of the Pacific | 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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