Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 48
It is quite hummocky and shows a wrinkled ropy structure.”
Who acts: name · What happens: be, show, wrinkle · To what, where: wrinkled ropy structure
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hummocky | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hummocky | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 hummocky | advmod |
| 4 | hummocky | hummocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shows | cc |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hummocky | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 structure | det |
| 8 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 structure | amod |
| 9 | ropy | ropy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 structure | amod |
| 10 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hummocky | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hummocky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | name | hummocky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | name not said here | a wrinkled ropy structure | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent structure=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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