Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 5

“The Challenger” surveyors give the average depth of the Pacific Ocean as about 2,400 fathoms, while between the Caroline and Ladrone groups of islands lies a valley whose ooze-carpeted floor can be reached only by a sounding line about 25,000 feet long, and near Japan about 30,000 feet of line is needed to reach the bottom of one of the deepest pits on the globe.

Who acts: surveyors, valley, sounding line · What happens: give, lie, carpet, reach, need · To what, where: Challenger, Caroline, ooze carpeted floor, 30,000 feet, Japan, bottom

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 (surveyors, valley, sounding line), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Challenger	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Challenger	det
3	Challenger	Challenger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Challenger	punct
5	surveyors	surveyor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 depth	det
8	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 depth	amod
9	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ocean	det
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Ocean	compound
13	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 depth	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 fathoms	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 2,400	advmod
16	2,400	2,400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 fathoms	nummod
17	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lies	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 lies	mark
20	between	between	ADP	_	22 Caroline	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Caroline	det
22	Caroline	Caroline	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lies	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Ladrone	cc
24	Ladrone	Ladrone	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Caroline	conj
25	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Caroline	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 islands	case
27	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 groups	nmod
28	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 valley	det
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lies	nsubj
31	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 floor	nmod:poss
32	ooze	ooze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 floor	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 ooze	punct
34	carpeted	carpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 floor	amod
35	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 reached	nsubj:pass
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 reached	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 reached	aux:pass
38	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 valley	acl:relcl
39	only	only	ADV	_	43 line	advmod
40	by	by	ADP	_	43 line	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 line	det
42	sounding	sounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 line	compound
43	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 reached	obl
44	about	about	ADV	_	45 25,000	advmod
45	25,000	25000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	46 feet	nummod
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 long	obl:unmarked
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 line	amod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 needed	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 needed	cc
50	near	near	ADP	_	51 Japan	case
51	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 needed	obl
52	about	about	ADV	_	53 30,000	advmod
53	30,000	30,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	54 feet	nummod
54	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 needed	nsubj:pass
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 line	case
56	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 needed	nsubj:pass
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 needed	aux:pass
58	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 give	parataxis
59	to	to	PART	_	60 reach	mark
60	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 needed	advcl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 bottom	det
62	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 reach	obj
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 one	case
64	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 bottom	nmod
65	of	of	ADP	_	68 pits	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 pits	det
67	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	68 pits	amod
68	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 one	nmod
69	on	on	ADP	_	71 globe	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 globe	det
71	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 pits	nmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	surveyors	the Challenger		as 2,400 fathoms; the average depth of the Pacific Ocean obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Theme
2	lie	present	a valley		the Caroline and Ladrone and groups of islands		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between caroline=Location
3	carpet	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	reach	can · passive	a sounding line	ooze carpeted floor			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	need	present · passive		30,000 feet	Japan	line nsubj:pass	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
6	reach	to-infinitive		the bottom of one of the deepest pits on the globe			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 5