Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 21
These are of no value, save as they show some of the forms taken by cooling lava, and are of interest chiefly to the scientist.
Who acts: These, value · What happens: be, save, show, take, cool · To what, where: some, forms, lava
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 (These, value), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 value | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 value | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 value | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 value | det |
| 5 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 value | parataxis |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | nsubj |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 save | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 show | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 forms | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forms | det |
| 14 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 forms | acl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 cooling | mark |
| 17 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | advcl |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cooling | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 interest | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 interest | cc |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 interest | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 interest | case |
| 23 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 value | conj |
| 24 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 27 scientist | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 scientist | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 scientist | det |
| 27 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 interest | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 value | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | These | of no value and interest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | present | value | some of the forms | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | take | participle | the forms not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cool | gerund | lava | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lava=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | These not said here | of interest; to the scientist | 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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