Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 104
The sketch is in the quaint Hawaiian tongue and is valuable throughout, but only a few extracts from the translation can be used at present.
Who acts: sketch, quaint Hawaiian tongue · What happens: be, use · To what, where: quaint Hawaiian tongue, few extracts, present
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: who acts (sketch, quaint Hawaiian tongue), 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 sketch | det |
| 2 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tongue | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tongue | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tongue | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tongue | det |
| 6 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongue | amod |
| 7 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongue | amod |
| 8 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 valuable | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 valuable | cop |
| 11 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongue | conj |
| 12 | throughout | throughout | ADV | _ | 11 valuable | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 used | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 used | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 extracts | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 extracts | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 extracts | amod |
| 18 | extracts | extract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 used | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 translation | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 translation | det |
| 21 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 extracts | nmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 used | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 used | aux:pass |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tongue | acl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 present | case |
| 26 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 used | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tongue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sketch | the quaint Hawaiian tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the sketch not said here | throughout, valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | can · passive | the quaint Hawaiian tongue not said here | a few extracts from the translation | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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