Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 4
The depth of the floor of the ocean is greater than the enormous elevation of the mountain ranges along its edge.
Who acts: depth, enormous elevation · What happens: be, range, elevate · To what, where: edge, mountain
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 (depth, enormous elevation), 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 | 2 depth | det |
| 2 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 greater | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 depth | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ocean | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ocean | det |
| 8 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 greater | cop |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 ranges | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elevation | det |
| 13 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 elevation | amod |
| 14 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ranges | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elevation | nmod |
| 18 | ranges | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 greater | advcl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 edge | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 edge | nmod:poss |
| 21 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ranges | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the depth of the floor of the ocean | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | range | present | the enormous elevation of the mountain | ocean's edge | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along edge=Location | ||||
| 3 | elevate | the mountain | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=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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