Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 127
Narrow was the flow in steep places and spread out widely in others.
Who acts: Narrow · What happens: be, spread out · To what, where: flow, steep places, others
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 (Narrow), 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 | Narrow | narrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flow | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flow | det |
| 4 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 places | case |
| 6 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 places | amod |
| 7 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flow | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flow | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 spread | compound:prt |
| 11 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 9 spread | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Narrow | the flow | steep places | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread out | present | Narrow not said here | others | widely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in other=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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