Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 21
Islands appear and disappear in the Western Pacific.
Who acts: Islands · What happens: appear, disappear · To what, where: Western Pacific
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 | Islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 disappear | cc |
| 4 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 appear | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Pacific | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pacific | det |
| 7 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pacific | amod |
| 8 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 disappear | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Islands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disappear | present | Islands not said here | the Western Pacific | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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