Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 40
From this volcano Kilauea, and the crater Mokuaweoweo, which lies like an island in the top of Mauna Loa, nearly 10,000 feet higher, come enormous and sometimes destructive lava flows.
Who acts: crater Mokuaweoweo, destructive lava · What happens: lie, come, flow · To what, where: top, volcano
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 (crater Mokuaweoweo, destructive lava), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 volcano | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 volcano | det |
| 3 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 volcano | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 come | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mokuaweoweo | det |
| 8 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Mokuaweoweo | compound |
| 9 | Mokuaweoweo | Mokuaweoweo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 come | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lies | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Mokuaweoweo | acl:relcl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Mauna | case |
| 20 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 21 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mauna | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 higher | punct |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 10,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 feet | nummod |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 Mokuaweoweo | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mokuaweoweo | punct |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 volcano | conj |
| 29 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 come | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 flows | cc |
| 31 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 flows | advmod |
| 32 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lava | amod |
| 33 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flows | nsubj |
| 34 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 enormous | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 volcano | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the crater Mokuaweoweo | the top of Mauna | like a island | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in top=Location | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | the crater Mokuaweoweo | enormous property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | present | destructive lava | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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