Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 4
In these craters and between them and the sea are many small craters which mark the most recent eruptions on the various islands.
Who acts: many small craters · What happens: be, mark · To what, where: many small craters, craters, recent eruptions, various islands
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 (many small craters), 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 | _ | 3 craters | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 craters | det |
| 3 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 craters | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 them | cc |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 craters | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sea | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 them | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 craters | cop |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 craters | amod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 craters | amod |
| 13 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 mark | nsubj |
| 15 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 craters | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eruptions | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 recent | advmod |
| 18 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eruptions | amod |
| 19 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mark | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 islands | det |
| 22 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 islands | amod |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mark | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 craters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many small craters | this craters between craters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mark | present | many small craters | the recent eruptions | the various islands | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent eruption=Theme on island=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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