Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 111
Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo are the very wonderful Pele pits (craters) discharging fire from the very depths of the mountains.
Who acts: Kilauea, wonderful Pele pits · What happens: be, discharge · To what, where: wonderful Pele pits, fire, depths
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 (Kilauea, wonderful Pele pits), 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 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pits | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Mokuaweoweo | cc |
| 3 | Mokuaweoweo | Mokuaweoweo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kilauea | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pits | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pits | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 wonderful | advmod |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pits | amod |
| 8 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pits | compound |
| 9 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 craters | punct |
| 11 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pits | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 craters | punct |
| 13 | discharging | discharge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 pits | acl |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discharging | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 depths | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 depths | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 depths | advmod |
| 18 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discharging | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 depths | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo | the wonderful Pele pits | craters appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | discharge | gerund | the wonderful Pele pits not said here | fire | the depths of the mountains | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from depth=Source |
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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