Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 9
The large mountains of all the islands, except Hawaii, have no hot springs and no outlets for steam or hot air which would indicate any remnant of living fire still abiding in them.
Who acts: large mountains, steam, living fire · What happens: have, indicate, abide · To what, where: remnant
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 (large mountains, steam, living fire), 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 | 3 mountains | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountains | amod |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 islands | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 islands | det |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mountains | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hawaii | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 islands | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mountains | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 springs | det |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 springs | amod |
| 15 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 outlets | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 outlets | det |
| 18 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 springs | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 steam | case |
| 20 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 springs | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 air | cc |
| 22 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 air | amod |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 steam | conj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 indicate | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 indicate | aux |
| 26 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 steam | acl:relcl |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 remnant | det |
| 28 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 indicate | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 fire | case |
| 30 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fire | amod |
| 31 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remnant | nmod |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 abiding | advmod |
| 33 | abiding | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 fire | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 abiding | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the large mountains of all islands | spring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | indicate | would | steam or hot air | any remnant of living fire | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot remnant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | abide | gerund | living fire not said here | still | in mountains = mountain | tree rules |
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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