Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 7
About forty sea miles off the north coast of Mindanao, the largest and most southerly of the important islands of the Philippines, the “Planet” found a depth of 32,078 feet.
What happens: find · To what, where: depth
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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 miles | case |
| 2 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | compound |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 largest | obl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 7 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coast | amod |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mindanao | case |
| 10 | Mindanao | Mindanao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 miles | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 largest | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 found | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 southerly | advmod |
| 16 | southerly | southerly | ADV | _ | 29 found | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 islands | det |
| 19 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 islands | amod |
| 20 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 southerly | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Philippines | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Philippines | det |
| 23 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 20 islands | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Planet | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Planet | det |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Planet | punct |
| 27 | Planet | Planet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Philippines | appos |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Planet | punct |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 largest | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 depth | det |
| 31 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 33 | 32,078 | 32,078 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 feet | nummod |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 depth | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 largest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a depth of 32,078 feet | southerly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Topic |
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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