Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 3

It is interesting to note the fact that all along the western coast of North and South America there is only a comparatively narrow strip of land between the mountain ranges and the sea, and that from the edge of this narrow seacoast there is a rapid descent in the ocean bed until it becomes one of the most profound oceanic depressions on the globe.

Who acts: fact, descent · What happens: be, note, become · To what, where: narrow strip

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 (fact, descent), 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	3 interesting	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 interesting	cop
3	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 note	mark
5	note	note	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 interesting	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fact	det
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strip	nsubj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
9	all	all	ADV	_	20 is	advmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	13 coast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coast	det
12	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coast	amod
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 all	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 America	case
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 America	compound
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 South	cc
17	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 North	conj
18	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 coast	nmod
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 strip	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	25 strip	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 strip	det
23	comparatively	comparatively	ADV	_	24 narrow	advmod
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 strip	amod
25	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 land	case
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strip	nmod
28	between	between	ADP	_	31 ranges	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ranges	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ranges	compound
31	ranges	range	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 strip	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sea	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ranges	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 that	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 that	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 interesting	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 edge	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 edge	det
40	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 is	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 seacoast	case
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 seacoast	det
43	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 seacoast	amod
44	seacoast	seacoast	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 edge	nmod
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 is	expl
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 that	fixed
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 descent	det
48	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 descent	amod
49	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 is	nsubj
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 bed	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 bed	det
52	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bed	compound
53	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 descent	nmod
54	until	until	SCONJ	_	56 becomes	mark
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 becomes	nsubj
56	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 is	advcl
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 becomes	xcomp
58	of	of	ADP	_	63 depressions	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 depressions	det
60	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	61 profound	advmod
61	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 depressions	amod
62	oceanic	oceanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 depressions	amod
63	depressions	depression	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 one	nmod
64	on	on	ADP	_	66 globe	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 globe	det
66	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 depressions	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			that obl; interesting property	tree rules
2	note	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the fact	a narrow strip	of land; between the mountain ranges and the sea	tree rules
4	become	present	descent		one of the profound oceanic depressions on the globe xcomp	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 3

The tree

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 3