Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 140
Hooks are so rapidly moved by the commotion in the waters that fishing with hook and line is not very successful.
Who acts: commotion, fishing · What happens: move, not be · To what, where: Hooks, waters
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 (commotion, fishing), 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 | Hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 4 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 commotion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 commotion | det |
| 8 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 successful | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fishing | det |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 successful | nsubj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hook | case |
| 15 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fishing | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 line | cc |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hook | conj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 successful | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 successful | advmod |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 successful | advmod |
| 21 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · passive | the commotion | Hooks | rapidly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | present | that fishing with hook and line | the waters | successful property | tree rules |
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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