Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 8
In other words, the Pacific Ocean where the sounding was taken has a depth of 6.07 miles, exceeding by 482 feet the greatest depth hitherto known.
Who acts: Pacific Ocean · What happens: take, have, exceed, know · To what, where: sounding, depth, greatest 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: who acts (Pacific Ocean), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Ocean | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ocean | det |
| 6 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ocean | compound |
| 7 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 taken | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sounding | det |
| 10 | sounding | sounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Ocean | advcl |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 depth | det |
| 15 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 miles | case |
| 17 | 6.07 | 6.07 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 depth | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 exceeding | punct |
| 20 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 has | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 feet | nummod |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 exceeding | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 depth | det |
| 25 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 depth | amod |
| 26 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feet | appos |
| 27 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 28 known | advmod |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 depth | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the sounding | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the Pacific Ocean in other words | a depth of 6.07 miles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exceed | gerund | the Pacific Ocean in other words not said here | by 482 feet | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | the greatest depth not said here | hitherto property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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