Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 35
In front of this hotel, and not seen until the motor-car stops, is the crater whose edges are almost level with the surrounding plain.
Who acts: motor car, edges · What happens: not see, stop, be, surround · To what, where: hotel, crater, front
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 (motor car, edges), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crater | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hotel | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hotel | det |
| 5 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hotel | acl:relcl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 stops | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 car | det |
| 12 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 car | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 motor | punct |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stops | nsubj |
| 15 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 front | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 crater | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crater | det |
| 19 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 edges | nmod:poss |
| 21 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 level | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 level | cop |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 level | advmod |
| 24 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crater | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 plain | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 plain | det |
| 27 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 plain | amod |
| 28 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 level | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 crater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | participle | this hotel not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | the motor car | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the crater | front of this hotel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | edges | with the surrounding plain; almost, level property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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