Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 142
Mimiki is defined as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing, and is sometimes used to express the confusion of advancing and returning tidal waves.
What happens: define, return, use, express, confuse · To what, where: Mimiki, confusion, tidal waves, advancing
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 | Mimiki | Mimiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 defined | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 defined | aux:pass |
| 3 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 meeting | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meeting | det |
| 6 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defined | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wave | det |
| 9 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wave | amod |
| 10 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meeting | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 advancing | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 advancing | det |
| 13 | advancing | advancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wave | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 used | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 used | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 used | advmod |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 defined | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 express | mark |
| 20 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 used | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 confusion | det |
| 22 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 express | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 advancing | case |
| 24 | advancing | advancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 confusion | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 returning | cc |
| 26 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 express | conj |
| 27 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 waves | amod |
| 28 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 returning | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 defined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | define | present · passive | Mimiki | as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as meeting=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | sometimes property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | express | to-infinitive | the confusion of advancing | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confusion=Theme | |||||
| 5 | return | gerund | tidal waves | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | |||||
| 6 | confuse | advancing | nom confusion «state 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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