Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 144
The inherent idea of the word seems to be quick, independent action of waves, bringing them into conflict with each other and destroying the quiet, regular motion.
Who acts: inherent idea, waves · What happens: seem, be, bring, destroy, act · To what, where: things, conflict, quiet regular motion
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 (inherent idea, waves), 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 | 3 idea | det |
| 2 | inherent | inherent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 idea | amod |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 idea | nmod |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 quick | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quick | cop |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 action | punct |
| 12 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 action | amod |
| 13 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quick | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 waves | case |
| 15 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 action | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bringing | punct |
| 17 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 seems | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bringing | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 conflict | case |
| 20 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bringing | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 bringing | obl |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 destroying | cc |
| 25 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 bringing | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 motion | det |
| 27 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 motion | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 quiet | punct |
| 29 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 motion | amod |
| 30 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 destroying | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the inherent idea of the word | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the inherent idea of the word not said here | independent action of waves conj; quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | things = thing | conflict | with each | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into conflict=Destination | |||
| 4 | destroy | gerund | the quiet regular motion | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Patient | |||||
| 5 | act | waves | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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