Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 10
Interspersed through this concise and interesting story of earthquakes told in a few word pictures are many references to other volcanic phenomena.
What happens: intersperse, tell, be · To what, where: concise story, earthquakes, few word pictures, Interspersed many references · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Interspersed | intersperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 references | amod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 story | det |
| 4 | concise | concise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 interesting | cc |
| 6 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 concise | conj |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Interspersed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 earthquakes | case |
| 9 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 story | nmod |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 earthquakes | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pictures | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pictures | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pictures | amod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pictures | compound |
| 15 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | obl |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 references | cop |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 references | amod |
| 18 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 phenomena | case |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 phenomena | amod |
| 21 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 phenomena | amod |
| 22 | phenomena | phenomena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 references | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 references | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intersperse | participle | this concise story of earthquakes | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | earthquakes not said here | a few word pictures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Interspersed many references | to other volcanic phenomena | 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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