Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 107
The earth has covered them in on all sides and the abundant soil, large trees, and green things of many kinds are multiplying.
Who acts: green things · What happens: cover, multiply · To what, where: earth, sides
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 (green things), 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 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 covered | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soil | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soil | det |
| 12 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soil | amod |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sides | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trees | punct |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sides | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 multiplying | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 multiplying | cc |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 multiplying | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kinds | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kinds | amod |
| 23 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 things | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 multiplying | aux |
| 25 | multiplying | multiply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 covered | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · perfect · passive | the earth | all sides and the abundant soil and large trees | eruption obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | multiply | present · progressive | green things of many kinds | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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