Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 137
A curious and interesting statement is made by the Hawaiian fishermen of Waikiki concerning a peculiar disturbance of the sea simultaneous with all seasons of volcanic agitation.
Who acts: Hawaiian fishermen · What happens: make, concern, disturb · To what, where: curious statement, peculiar disturbance, sea
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 (Hawaiian fishermen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 statement | det |
| 2 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 statement | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 interesting | cc |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 curious | conj |
| 5 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fishermen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fishermen | det |
| 10 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fishermen | amod |
| 11 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Waikiki | case |
| 13 | Waikiki | Waikiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fishermen | nmod |
| 14 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fishermen | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 disturbance | det |
| 16 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 disturbance | amod |
| 17 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concerning | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disturbance | nmod |
| 21 | simultaneous | simultaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 concerning | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 seasons | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 seasons | det |
| 24 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 simultaneous | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 agitation | case |
| 26 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 agitation | amod |
| 27 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seasons | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the Hawaiian fishermen of Waikiki | a curious statement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the Hawaiian fishermen of Waikiki not said here | a peculiar disturbance of the sea | simultaneous property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus disturbance=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | disturb | the sea | nom disturbance «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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