Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 6
There are very interesting stories connected with many of them, and there are legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters which lie at the bases of the mountain ranges.
Who acts: interesting stories, legends, small extinct craters · What happens: be, connect, lie · To what, where: interesting stories, bases
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 (interesting stories, legends, small extinct craters), 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 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 interesting | advmod |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stories | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 many | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 connected | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 many | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 are | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 15 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 are | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 origin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 origin | det |
| 18 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 legends | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 some | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 origin | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 craters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 craters | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 craters | amod |
| 24 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 craters | amod |
| 25 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 some | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lie | nsubj |
| 27 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 craters | acl:relcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 bases | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bases | det |
| 30 | bases | basis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lie | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ranges | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ranges | det |
| 33 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ranges | compound |
| 34 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 bases | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | interesting stories | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | connect | participle | interesting stories not said here | with many of stories | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with many=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | does | present | legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | the small extinct craters | the bases of the mountain ranges | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at basis=Location |
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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