Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 110
“Mauna Loa is the greatest of all the mountains, opening doors for the Pele fires from all its sides.
Who acts: Mauna, Pele · What happens: be, open, fire · To what, where: doors, 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 (Mauna, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 greatest | punct |
| 2 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 greatest | nsubj |
| 3 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mauna | flat |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 greatest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 greatest | det |
| 6 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 mountains | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 greatest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opening | punct |
| 12 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 greatest | advcl |
| 13 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opening | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 fires | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pele | det |
| 16 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fires | nsubj |
| 17 | fires | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opening | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sides | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sides | det:predet |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sides | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fires | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 greatest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mauna | of all mountains; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open in a quote | gerund | Mauna not said here | doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fire in a quote | present | the Pele | fire's sides | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from side=Initial_Location |
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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