Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 6
The German survey ship “Planet” has made the deepest sounding thus far taken.
What happens: make, sound, take · To what, where: German survey ship
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: 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 ship | det |
| 2 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 3 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ship | compound |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Planet | punct |
| 6 | Planet | Planet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ship | appos |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Planet | punct |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deepest | det |
| 11 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 deepest | advcl |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 taken | advmod |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sounding | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | the German survey ship | deep property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | sound | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | participle | far property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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