Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 20

Here and there in the decaying volcanic ash and disintegrating lava can sometimes be found beautiful, small, star-rayed zeolite, or the pale green olivine, or coarse black augite crystals.

What happens: decay, disintegrate, find, ray · To what, where: lava, rayed zeolite

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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 found	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 ash	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ash	det
6	decaying	decay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ash	amod
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ash	amod
8	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 disintegrating	cc
10	disintegrating	disintegrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ash	conj
11	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disintegrating	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 found	aux
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 found	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 found	aux:pass
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 found	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 small	punct
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beautiful	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 zeolite	punct
20	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rayed	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 star	punct
22	rayed	ray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 zeolite	amod
23	zeolite	zeolite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 olivine	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 olivine	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 olivine	det
27	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 olivine	amod
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 olivine	amod
29	olivine	olivine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crystals	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 crystals	cc
32	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 crystals	amod
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 crystals	amod
34	augite	augite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crystals	compound
35	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 olivine	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decay	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	disintegrate	gerund	lava			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lava=Patient
3	find	can · passive	rayed zeolite	here; there	the pale green olivine or coarse black augite crystals obl; beautiful, sometimes property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
4	ray	participle			star compound	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 20