Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 46
An island about four hundred feet high rose out of the sea at the south point.
Who acts: island · What happens: rise · To what, where: 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 (island), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 feet | nummod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 high | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 island | amod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 point | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 point | det |
| 15 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 point | amod |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a island | the sea | at the south point | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=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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