Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 47
The lava river has extended the shore to this island one mile at least.”
What happens: extend · To what, where: lava river
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 river | compound |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 extended | aux |
| 5 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 mile | nummod |
| 12 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 least | case |
| 14 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 mile | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extended | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present · perfect · passive | the lava river | to this island; the shore obj; one mile at least parataxis | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Recipient shore=Theme |
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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