Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 44
There are two kinds of lava which these rivers carry down.
Who acts: two kinds, rivers · What happens: be, carry down · To what, where: two kinds
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 (two kinds, rivers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kinds | nummod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lava | case |
| 6 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carry | obj |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 rivers | det |
| 9 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinds | acl:relcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 carry | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two kinds of lava | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry down | present | this rivers | two kinds of lava | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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