Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 47
Professor C. H. Hitchcock, the eminent geologist, says: “The name pa-hoe-hoe signifies having the aspect of satin or having a shining smooth surface.
Who acts: C., name · What happens: say, signify, have, shine · To what, where: aspect, shining smooth surface · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (C., name), 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 | Professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 C. | nmod:desc |
| 2 | C. | C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 3 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 C. | flat |
| 4 | Hitchcock | Hitchcock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 C. | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 geologist | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 geologist | det |
| 7 | eminent | eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 geologist | amod |
| 8 | geologist | geologist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 C. | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 C. | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 signifies | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 signifies | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 signifies | nsubj |
| 15 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hoe | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pa | punct |
| 17 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hoe | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 hoe | punct |
| 19 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 name | appos |
| 20 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | conj |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 signifies | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 aspect | det |
| 23 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 satin | case |
| 25 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aspect | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 having | cc |
| 27 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 having | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 surface | det |
| 29 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 surface | amod |
| 30 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 surface | amod |
| 31 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 having | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | C. Professor and the eminent geologist | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | signify in a quote | present | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | gerund | the name not said here | the aspect of satin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | gerund | the name not said here | a shining smooth surface | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shine in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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