Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 20
The New Zealand islands have a volcanic region around Roturua which is visited by numbers of tourists every year.
Who acts: Zealand islands, numbers · What happens: have, visit · To what, where: volcanic region, Roturua
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 (Zealand islands, numbers), 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 | 4 islands | det |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 islands | compound |
| 4 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 region | det |
| 7 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 region | amod |
| 8 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 Roturua | case |
| 10 | Roturua | Roturua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 region | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 visited | aux:pass |
| 13 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 region | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 numbers | case |
| 15 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 visited | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tourists | case |
| 17 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 numbers | nmod |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Zealand islands | a volcanic region | Roturua | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient | |||
| 2 | visit | present · passive | numbers of tourists | a volcanic region | year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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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