Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 52
The name a-a, which signifies “torn up by roots,” is the name given to another kind of lava.
Who acts: name · What happens: signify, tear up, be, give · To what, where: name, kind
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 a | reparandum |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 name | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 signifies | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 signifies | nsubj |
| 8 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 name | acl:relcl |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 torn | punct |
| 10 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 signifies | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 torn | compound:prt |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 roots | case |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 torn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 torn | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 signifies | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 name | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 name | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 kind | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 kind | det |
| 22 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lava | case |
| 24 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tear up in a quote | participle | the name not said here | by roots | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the name | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | the name not said here | another kind of lava | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kind=Recipient |
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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