Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 22
On the island Hawaii are three great mountains from 8,200 to 13,600 feet above the ocean, which smashes its mighty tides and surf waves against the coast below.
Who acts: ocean · What happens: be, smash, tide · To what, where: three great mountains, island, mighty tides, coast
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | obl |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 island | appos |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mountains | cop |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 mountains | nummod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mountains | amod |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 10 | 8,200 | 8,200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 13,600 | case |
| 12 | 13,600 | 13,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 8,200 | nmod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mountains | nmod |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 ocean | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ocean | det |
| 16 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smashes | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 smashes | nsubj |
| 19 | smashes | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tides | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tides | amod |
| 22 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smashes | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 waves | cc |
| 24 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waves | compound |
| 25 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tides | conj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 coast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 coast | det |
| 28 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smashes | obl |
| 29 | below | below | ADV | _ | 28 coast | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mountains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | three great mountains | the island | from 8,200 feet above the ocean | tree rules | |||
| 2 | smash | present | the ocean | ocean's mighty tides and surf waves | the coast | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tide=Theme against coast=Destination | |||
| 3 | tide | ocean | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=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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