Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 10
Nor are there any very noticeable earthquake shocks in these other islands, even at the time when the island Hawaii is pouring floods of lava down its mountain sides and is shaking its inhabitants with great force.
Who acts: noticeable earthquake shocks, island, lava · What happens: be, pour, shake, flood · To what, where: floods, inhabitants
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noticeable earthquake shocks, island, lava), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 3 there | discourse |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 shocks | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 noticeable | advmod |
| 6 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shocks | amod |
| 7 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shocks | compound |
| 8 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 there | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 islands | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islands | amod |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shocks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 time | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 islands | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 pouring | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pouring | nsubj |
| 21 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 island | appos |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pouring | aux |
| 23 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 time | advcl |
| 24 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pouring | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lava | case |
| 26 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floods | nmod |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 sides | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sides | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sides | compound |
| 30 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pouring | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shaking | cc |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 shaking | aux |
| 33 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 pouring | conj |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 35 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shaking | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 force | case |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 force | amod |
| 38 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shaking | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | any noticeable earthquake shocks in this other islands and the time | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour | present · progressive | the island | floods of lava | down island's mountain sides | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Patient | |||
| 3 | shake | present · progressive | the island not said here | island's inhabitants | with great force | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient with force=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | flood | lava | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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