Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 61
Snow has frequently covered the top of the mountain, lying in deep banks around the edge of the crater.
What happens: cover, lie · To what, where: Snow, deep banks
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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux |
| 3 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 4 covered | advmod |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lying | punct |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 covered | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 banks | case |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 banks | amod |
| 14 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 edge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 edge | det |
| 17 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 banks | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 crater | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crater | det |
| 20 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 edge | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · perfect · passive | Snow | the top of the mountain obj; frequently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | deep banks around the edge of the crater | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bank=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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