Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 80
The eruption appeared to be in a straight line out from this point.
Who acts: eruption · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: point, straight line
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 (eruption), 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 | 2 eruption | det |
| 2 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 line | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 line | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 line | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 line | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 point | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 point | det |
| 13 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the eruption | this point | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the eruption not said here | a straight line | out property | tree rules |
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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