Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 117
The place where the a-a reached the sea is not known.
What happens: reach, not know · To what, where: reached sea, place
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 known | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sea | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 known | advmod |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | participle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not know | present · passive | the reached sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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