Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 25
Mauna Loa (Great or long mountain) has a most interesting active crater on its summit, Mokuaweoweo (Blood-red island), from which enormous rivers of lava are hurled down to the waiting ocean many miles below.
Who acts: Mauna · What happens: have, hurl down · To what, where: interesting active crater, summit, enormous rivers
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 (Mauna), 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 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 2 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mauna | flat |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountain | punct |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 long | cc |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Great | conj |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mauna | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountain | punct |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crater | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 interesting | advmod |
| 12 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 crater | amod |
| 13 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 crater | amod |
| 14 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 summit | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 summit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crater | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mokuaweoweo | punct |
| 19 | Mokuaweoweo | Mokuaweoweo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 crater | appos |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 island | punct |
| 21 | Blood | Blood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 island | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Blood | punct |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 island | amod |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mokuaweoweo | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 island | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hurled | punct |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 hurled | obl |
| 29 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rivers | amod |
| 30 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hurled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 lava | case |
| 32 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rivers | nmod |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hurled | aux:pass |
| 34 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 crater | conj |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 hurled | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 ocean | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ocean | det |
| 38 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ocean | compound |
| 39 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hurled | obl |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 miles | amod |
| 41 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hurled | obl |
| 42 | below | below | ADV | _ | 41 miles | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mauna | a interesting active crater | One's summit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Patient | |||
| 2 | hurl down | present · passive | enormous rivers of lava | a interesting active crater | to the waiting ocean; many miles obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location to ocean=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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