Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 11
Open volcanic activity is confined to the mountains of Hawaii.
What happens: confine · To what, where: Open volcanic activity, mountains
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: 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 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 activity | amod |
| 2 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 activity | amod |
| 3 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 confined | aux:pass |
| 5 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confined | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | present · passive | Open volcanic activity | the mountains of Hawaii | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mountain=Destination |
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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