Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 28
Below Kilauea are a number of craters of similar character, great sunken holes or pits in a country of almost even surface.
What happens: be · To what, where: number, Kilauea
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 | Below | below | ADP | _ | 2 Kilauea | case |
| 2 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 number | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 number | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 craters | case |
| 7 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 9 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 character | amod |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 craters | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holes | punct |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 holes | amod |
| 13 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 holes | amod |
| 14 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 craters | appos |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 pits | cc |
| 16 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 holes | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holes | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 surface | case |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 even | advmod |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 surface | advmod |
| 23 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 country | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a number | Kilauea | of craters of similar character | 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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