Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 50
Perpendicular column of smoke over 1,000 feet high on the summit crater spreading out at top like an expanding flower.”
Who acts: summit crater · What happens: spread out, expand · To what, where: top, Perpendicular column
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 (summit crater), 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 | Perpendicular | perpendicular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 column | amod |
| 2 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 smoke | case |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 column | nmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 1,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 high | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smoke | amod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 crater | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crater | det |
| 11 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crater | compound |
| 12 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | obl |
| 13 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 crater | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spreading | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spreading | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 flower | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flower | det |
| 19 | expanding | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 flower | amod |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spreading | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 column | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 column | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | gerund | the summit crater not said here | top | like a expanding flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | |||
| 2 | expand | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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