Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 8
These small extinct craters marked the progress of Pele’s journey through the islands.
Who acts: extinct craters, journey, Pele · What happens: mark, progress, journey · To what, where: progress, islands
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 (extinct craters, journey, Pele), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 craters | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 extinct | amod |
| 3 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 craters | amod |
| 4 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 marked | nsubj |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 progress | det |
| 7 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Pele | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 progress | nmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 marked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | this extinct craters | the progress of Pele's journey | the islands | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent progress=Theme through island=Destination | |||
| 2 | progress | Pele's journey | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | journey | Pele | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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